Re: cpio incorrectly dereferencing symlinks

From: Tim Robbins <tjr_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 19:51:41 +1000

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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