My documentation for "newc" is based primarily on studying the
implementation of GNU cpio. I've not found any good
references for the history of this format.
OK, this is good to know. I'm not saying one or the other program is
wrong, but having a piece of documentation describing an
implementat
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, ye
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
The discusison started with the OpenBSD pax implementation, which also
does cpio. OpenBSD pax has the same roots as the FreeBSD one, so I
suspect some of the problems are shared.
This would be Keith Muller's old combined implementation
of pax/cpio/tar. Here's the situation as I understand it:
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 01:59:41PM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> My documentation for "newc" is based primarily on studying the
> implementation of GNU cpio. I've not found any good
> references for the history of this format.
OK, this is good to know. I'm not saying one or the other program is
w
My documentation for "newc" is based primarily on studying the
implementation of GNU cpio. I've not found any good
references for the history of this format.
I'm a little unclear what pax implementation you're
discussing. Based on the description below, I would
suggest you test whether this pr
Tim Kientzle of FreeBSD (author of libarchive, attempting to CC here)
describes the cpio format here:
http://people.freebsd.org/~kientzle/libarchive/man/cpio.5.txt
This document states about the SRV4 (newc) format (magic 070701, which
is what we're dealing with):
In this format, hardlinked
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