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I've finally gotten 'cpio' into a shape where it could be useable. This version can archive and extract directories, sockets, FIFOs, devices, symlinks, and regular files. Supported options are -iot, -H FMT (which is a dummy right now). It only writes newc, and could read newc or newcrc. This does NOT implement -d, which essentially is equivalent to mkdir -p $(dirname $FILE) for every file that needs it. Hard links are not supported, though it would be easy to add them given a hash table or something like that. I also have not implemented the "<n> blocks" output on stderr. If desired, I can add it pretty simply. There is one assumption this makes: that the mode of a file, as mode_t, is bitwise equivalent to the mode as defined for the cpio format. This is true of Linux, but is not mandated by POSIX. If it is compiled for a system where that is false, the archives will not be portable.
author Isaac Dunham <ibid.ag@gmail.com>
date Mon, 14 Oct 2013 11:15:22 -0500
parents 264b9da809df
children c7d27a6f9022
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Copyright (C) 2006, 2013 by Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>

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(Note: some build infrastructure in the scripts directory is still GPL,
cleaning that out is a TODO item, but it doesn't affect the resulting
binary.)