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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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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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