Hi Dominique and Stefano, Thanks for reporting that. I'm ashamed to have overlooked this issue. The original patch, while fixing the bug, inadvertently introduced another one: eventual read error was never caught, so I installed this patch instead:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/cpio.git/commit/?id=a1b2f7871c3ae5113e0102b870b15ea06a8f0e3d Regards, Sergey
