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Subject: Re: cpio incorrectly dereferencing symlinks
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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