On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 02:42:48AM +0000, Clint Adams wrote: > On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 11:37:51PM +0200, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote: > > This bug has been fixed in the cpio repository. No official versions > > have been released since then. I plan to release next version by the > > end of this month. It will be available, as usual, from > > ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/cpio. If you wish, I can prepare a test tarball > > for you. > > I have the following four patches which are still applicable to 2.9.90: > > 1) missing space in cpio.texi (fixed in CVS) > 2) Robert Millan's patch to set O_BINARY where available > 3) pack old_cpio_header and old_ascii_header structs to avoid breakage > on old ARM ABI. > 4) pax exit code stuff (fixed in git) > > Do I recall correctly that #2 was to be fixed upstream a different way > or did I make that up?
Hi Clint, I reviewed my mail archives. Sergey said a patch was being fixed in a different way, but it was not this one (it was the patch that introduced initial mingw32 support). The O_BINARY one was sent in early 2008: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-cpio/2008-02/msg00000.html -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." _______________________________________________ Bug-cpio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-cpio
