On 03/08/11 23:25, Dan Stromberg wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Thomas Jollans <t...@jollybox.de > <mailto:t...@jollybox.de>> wrote: > > > > Interesting. Of course, it's probably readily available to you. What > > *ix are you seeing that doesn't include cpio by default? > > Arch Linux - the base install is quite minimal. I just discovered that I > have a program called bsdcpio which is used by mkinitcpio (and possibly > other system scripts); no need for the GNU cpio. Curious. > > > I guess that makes some sense. If you want to really strip down an > install, removing cpio is a good candidate since it duplicates what's in > tar, and tar is more popular - especially for interactive use. > >> Which implementations of cp don't implement -R and -l? >> >> >> Probably most of them, except GNU and newer BSD. > > Okay. While GNU libc manuals usually document how portable functions are > in detail, that's not true for the GNU coreutils manuals. > > > I don't think cpio is in GNU coreutils. Also, I think GNU cpio is a > reimplementation, not the original.
Indeed. But cp is in the coreutils, and that was what we were talking about. As for GNU cpio, that's simply what /usr/bin/cpio, if present, is expected to be on a GNU/Linux system. > > cpio's been around since PWB/Unix, which sits between 6th Edition Unix > and 7th Edition. It should be in just about everything, unless a > vendor/distributor got pretty zealous about cutting duplicate utilities. > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
