cpio incorrectly dereferencing symlinks

From: Kris Kennaway <kris_at_obsecurity.org>
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 01:40:59 -0400

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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