Your message dated Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:21:41 -0300 (ART) with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has caused the report #42158, regarding pax: hard linked files from cpio archives "restored" with zero size (can cause data loss) to be marked as having been forwarded to the upstream software author(s) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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--- Begin Message ---I maintain a package of the OpenBSD pax utility for the Debian system. One of my users reported some time back a problem where restoring a cpio archive that contains hard links would result in zero length files. I'm currently working on updating my package to your head of CVS, and the problem still exists. I took a quick look and didn't immediately see what the problem is. I don't have a quick way to test this on an OpenBSD system. If it works for you and fails on Debian, that would be a very interesting thing to know. A simple test case to duplicate this problem if you have cpio available to you is: rm -rf paxtest && mkdir paxtest echo -n x > paxtest/file0 ln paxtest/file0 paxtest/file1 rm -rf z && mkdir z find paxtest | cpio -H newc --create | (cd z && pax -r) ls -la paxtest z/paxtest What we see is that the files in paxtest are of length one byte, while the files in z/paxtest are zero length. The original bug report and discussion can be found in our bug tracking system at http://bugs.debian.org/42158 Thoughts? Bdale
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