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Date:      Thu, 06 Oct 2005 19:51:41 +1000
From:      Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cpio incorrectly dereferencing symlinks
Message-ID:  <4344F3AD.3010503@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20051005054059.GA25393@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote:

>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.
>
This should be fixed now. Thanks for the report.


Tim
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