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Date:      Wed, 5 Oct 2005 01:40:59 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        tjr@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   cpio incorrectly dereferencing symlinks
Message-ID:  <20051005054059.GA25393@xor.obsecurity.org>

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The new cpio (invoked by cpio -dump) copies symlinks by dereferencing
them, i.e. copying the files they point to, instead of the symlinks
themselves.  This is a regression.

Kris





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