[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Schilling) wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > >cpio has a bug with hard link handling that will cause real problems
> > >if you use the outdated mkisofs that currently comes with Solaris.
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> >
> > What kind of bug (it always works for me and makes the proper hardlinks)
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> Run "setup-install-server" on a recent Solaris release.....
And to explain the bug: since someone (recently) added code to collect all
file names from stdin _before_ cpio starts archiving, it asumes that all
files with equal st_ino to be hard linked to each other, regardless of st_nlink
and regardless of whether the "file" is a symlink.
POSIX says that st_ino on Symlinks is meaningless unless you positively know
that the underlying filesystem supports hard links to symlinks.
As a result, you get funny hardlinks between unrelated files.
Jörg
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