Practically missing cpio(1L) man page since Oct 22 2006

2006-12-21 Thread Parv
A few minutes ago I was extracting information about mass copying with pax(1) cpio(1L) on 6.2-PRERELEASE. I got information from pax(1) man page, but i found cpio(1L) man page to be rather lacking. (Yeah, I saw the pointer to info.) Is it possible to have a genuine cpio(1L) 2.6 man page

Re: Practically missing cpio(1L) man page since Oct 22 2006

2006-12-21 Thread LI Xin
The point of MFC'ing cpio(1) changes is that it has fixed some old bugs that can potentially damage user data. Personally I'd rather replace it with the BSD pax(1) found in the base system, if we had a proper GNU cpio(1) test suite to make sure that we did not break something. It might be