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- From: drl@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (David R. Linn)
- Subject: Re: Cpio and symbolic links (was Re: stock 0.1 swap not enough.)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug15.143740.27391@vuse.vanderbilt.edu>
- Keywords: cpio, bug, symbolic link
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- Organization: Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, Nashville, TN, USA
- References: <BsIGDv.yo@chinet.chi.il.us> <1992Aug9.175542.16722@mks.com> <Bszz1K.28B@twwells.com>
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 14:37:40 GMT
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- I can verify that the AT&T released cpio has problems in general with symlinks.
- Even the SunOS version which was made aware of symlinks by a well-known wizard
- has problems with symlinks in the presence of some combination of switches (in
- my case "-pdl").
-
- David
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