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- From: corey@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (william.c.brown)
- Subject: Re: serious bug in cpio -i -Htar
- Organization: AT&T
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 12:37:39 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.123739.3368@cbnewsm.cb.att.com>
- Summary: tar with cpio?
- References: <4910@svin09.info.win.tue.nl>
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- In article <4910@svin09.info.win.tue.nl>, debra@wsinis07.info.win.tue.nl (Paul De Bra) writes:
- > I just found this unbelievable but dead serious bug in cpio.
- > I verified the bug with Esix 4.0.4 and with DG/UX 5.4.1 (on an AViiON, with
- > mc88100 cpu), so it seems like a fairly widespread bug in sVr4.
- >
- > The bug is that when reading a tar archive (cpio can do that you know)
- > cpio will restore all files with more than one link, even if they are
- > not asked for.
- >
-
- Why, why, why would you ever read a tar archive with cpio??? Just beacuse
- you can is no reason..
-
- I would suggest NOT using the "H" option and cpio will let you know if
- the archive you have is in cpio format or not.
-
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