Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 06:57:27 GMT From: Toerless Eckert <tte@fau.de> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: bin/74801: cpio -p --sparse creates truncated files Message-ID: <200412070657.iB76vR7R077355@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200412070700.iB770haM004645@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 74801 >Category: bin >Synopsis: cpio -p --sparse creates truncated files >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Dec 07 07:00:42 GMT 2004 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Toerless Eckert >Release: 5.3 >Organization: >Environment: FreeBSD eckert-mistpc 5.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Fri Nov 5 04:19:18 UTC 2004 root@harlow.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 >Description: Copying binary files from windows (.exe, .dll) with "cpio -p --sparse" does create files that are truncated. These files seem to have multiple hole (0) segments and zero segments at the end of the files. Copying works fine without "--sparse". >How-To-Repeat: Try copying windows binaries or dlls. Example file is from Acrobat Reader 5.0: % echo ACROFX32.DLL | /usr/bin/cpio -p --sparse /tmp % ls -l ACROFX32.DLL /tmp/ACROFX32.DLL -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 52224 Dec 6 17:49 /tmp/ACROFX32.DLL -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 53248 Apr 16 2001 ACROFX32.DLL >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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