the default behavior of cpio is to extract archives with absolute pathnames ... some feel [1] that having this as the default is a bad idea and proposed patches [2] to change cpio to extract with relative paths by default but allow for absolute pathnames via a new parameter
[1] http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/396429/2005-04-18/2005-04-24/0 [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=57389 i really dont care either way, but i'd prefer to keep cpio behavior as close as possible to how upstream wants so the question is, will the default behavior of extracting with absolute paths be retained since it's always been like that ? -mike _______________________________________________ Bug-cpio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-cpio
