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Date:      Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:26:25 -0700
From:      Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org>
To:        vova@fbsd.ru
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cpio -dumpl damages the files?
Message-ID:  <486AF561.70201@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <1214930730.1898.3.camel@localhost>
References:  <20080626110521.GA68764@wep4017.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de>	 <1214815958.3581.67.camel@localhost> <486901FB.5080308@freebsd.org>	 <1214842042.8768.12.camel@localhost> <4869C4C4.1050806@freebsd.org>	 <1214900266.1947.13.camel@localhost> <486A53AD.9090904@freebsd.org> <1214930730.1898.3.camel@localhost>

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Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 08:56 -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> 
>>Try adding the following to the above condition:
>>
>>     && archive_entry_filetype(entry) != AE_IFLNK
> 
> I guess it will work. I just wander about other AE_IF* that may not pass
> link(2).

Perhaps cpio -dumpl should only try to hardlink regular files?

That would be an easy change.

Tim



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