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Date:      Fri, 21 Jul 1995 02:11:59 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Cc:        current@freefall.cdrom.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: Hmmmm!  New error encountered with cpio while building root.flp
Message-ID:  <199507201611.CAA00562@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>> There is no problem reading.  cpio now refuses to copyout files that it
>> can't handle.

>Okay, good.  So the problems will all happen during the builds which
>means worse case we end up missing bits, and in the case above all
>the bits :-(.

There will be no problem unless you ignore the error output.  I didn't
make the error fatal because that would be inconsistent with cpio's
handling of worse errors.  cpio should continue but exit with a nonzero
status like tar does.

Bruce



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