Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 21:02:31 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, phk@freefall.cdrom.com Cc: current@freefall.cdrom.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Hmmmm! New error encountered with cpio while building root.flp Message-ID: <199507201102.VAA22942@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> cpio (and tar) now check for minor numbers that would be truncated. pax >> now uses the correct macro for minor() so its existing check works. The >You shouldn't check when "cpio -p" is in effect.. I only check for `cpio -o' since that is the only place where I thought minor numbers would be truncated. Now I can think of some more places: for `cpio -i', 32-bit rdevs in the input may be silently truncated if ints or rdevs in the target system are less than 32 bits. I think there are similar bugs in nfs. Bruce
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