Re: cpio -dumpl damages the files?

From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:26:25 -0700
Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 08:56 -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> 
>>Try adding the following to the above condition:
>>
>>     && archive_entry_filetype(entry) != AE_IFLNK
> 
> I guess it will work. I just wander about other AE_IF* that may not pass
> link(2).

Perhaps cpio -dumpl should only try to hardlink regular files?

That would be an easy change.

Tim
Received on Wed Jul 02 2008 - 01:26:39 UTC

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