Tim Kientzle wrote:
For Tim's reference: we're discussing pax here:
http://bugs.debian.org/42158
I think it would be good to compare to OpenSolaris cpio, being a third
independent implementation of cpio. At the moment I do not have access
to one, but I'll try to setup something today.
Oh, yeah. Gunnar Ritter's "Heirloom toolchest"
(based on open-sourced AT&T code) is also a good
comparison point:
http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/tools.html
From Gunnar Ritter's cpio.1 manpage:
The -c format was introduced with System V Release 4. Except
for the file size, it imposes no practical limitations on
files archived. The original SVR4 implementation stores the
contents of hard linked files only once and with the last
archived link. This cpio ensures compatibility with SVR4.
With archives created by implementations that employ other
methods for storing hard linked files, each file is extracted
as a single link, and some of these files may be empty.
I'm not sure what exactly this last sentence is supposed to
mean.
Tim
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