Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1995 21:33:50 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hmmmm! New error encountered with cpio while building root.flp Message-ID: <199507211133.VAA31644@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>Why not change the default to the safe "newc"? cpio is supposed to >read all formats automagically, and Posix does only standardize pax >anyway. POSIX.1 specifies certain tar and cpio formats. Note that gnu tar implements the format specified in an early draft of POSIX.1 and handles the standard format poorly for extraction because it thinks it is nonstandard. Gnu cpio implements the POSIX.1 format. See cpio/README. The handling of rdevs is mostly implementation-defined. Zeroing them for regular files is allowed. Bruce
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