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Subject: Re: cpio misunderstanding?
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On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 11:30:59 -0800, David Brodbeck <gull@gull.us> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Joe Kraft <jvk-list@thekrafts.org> wrote:
> > OK, now I know what's going on. =A0I just don't know why. =A0The immuta=
ble flag
> > was set on all these files, if you clear it cpio will happily copy them=
 to
> > the new directory.
>=20
> Does cpio attempt to preserve flags?  Since the error is "could not
> create," I'm wondering if it's trying to set the same flags on the
> copy of the file and failing to do so.

I'm not sure about that - "man cpio" doesn't give a hint
about flags. On the other hand, tar's -p option does keep
the file mode (permissions), flags and maybe ACLs intact.

I've tried "info cpio" ouch! ouch!, but that's not a
continuous manual that allows easy searching for strings. :-(

Some search in the /usr/src/bin subtree for the "chflags"
call revealed that it is used by the chflags binary, cp,
mv and rm commands, but no hint it is involved directly
in cpio.



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Polytropon
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