On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 03:47:10PM +0100, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> I have to add, this only affects cpio-2.9 from lenny. My C-Skills are a
> little bit rusty, but the following patch seems to work for me:

Oh, well, I'm afraid there's not much I can do for lenny but create an
unofficial backport of 2.10.  Would that help?

> chrisbra t41:~/source/cpio/cpio-2.9/src [1081:1]% diff -Nu userspec.c{.old,}
> --- userspec.c.old      2009-12-23 15:40:09.000000000 +0100
> +++ userspec.c  2009-12-23 15:40:21.000000000 +0100
> @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@
>    char *spec;                  /* A copy we can write on.  */
>    struct passwd *pwd;
>    struct group *grp;
> -  char *g, *u, *separator;
> +  unsigned char *g, *u, *separator;
>    char *groupname;

I'm confused; what is expecting those characters to be unsigned?



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