Followup to: <20020110173029.7616f752.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
By author: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> HPA,
> gnu cpio (v 2.4.2) actually puts the contents in the *last*
> entry, for hardlinks in "newc" format. This probably means you should
> specify that if it's a found tuple, and c_filesize is non-zero,
> overwrite the contents of the file.
>
Check. I must admit this greatly surprises me (since it means that it
needs to do more than one pass), but it certainly isn't making the
spec any more difficult. As I said, it's a draft.
-hpa
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