From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 19 10:46:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA21661 for current-outgoing; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 10:46:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA21655 Tue, 19 Mar 1996 10:46:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA04511; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 11:49:10 -0700 Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 11:49:10 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199603191849.LAA04511@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: "Garrett A. Wollman" Cc: Joerg Wunsch , FreeBSD-Current Mailing List Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/cpio copyin.c In-Reply-To: <9603191627.AA32692@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> References: <199603182308.PAA10754@freefall.freebsd.org> <9603191627.AA32692@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Modified: gnu/usr.bin/cpio copyin.c > > Log: > > Fix an infinite loop for empty files in the archive, and handle > > sparsely stored linked files correctly. > > Perhaps it's again time to look at implementing a cpio interface to > pax(1) so that we can get rid of the duplicate functionality? (pax > already knows how to read cpio archives.) And tar as well. I believe BSDi uses pax for both cpio and tar in their releases. Nate