Hi There seems to be a bug in copyout.c. A string returned from readlink() isn't null terminated, which cases archived symlinks to contain garbage (at least on my system).
A simple patch is attached. Regards /Ronny Nilsson
diff -rup cpio-2.7-orig/src/copyout.c cpio-2.7-symlink-string/src/copyout.c --- cpio-2.7-orig/src/copyout.c 2006-09-27 10:19:44.000000000 +0200 +++ cpio-2.7-symlink-string/src/copyout.c 2007-06-05 16:01:05.000000000 +0200 @@ -806,6 +806,7 @@ process_copy_out () free (link_name); continue; } + link_name[link_size] = '\0'; cpio_safer_name_suffix (link_name, false, !no_abs_paths_flag, true); link_size = strlen (link_name);
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