path: root/contrib/cpio/TODO

Following is the list of cpio-related reports to bug-gnu-utils.
Many of them appear to be fixed, but quite a number of them is
probably still waiting for being handled. The list is sorted
in reverse chronological order.

   4. copyin.c cpio probably questions/rfc (score: 35)
          Author: Grzegorz Jaskiewicz <gj@pointblue.com.pl>
          Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 17:12:45 +0100
          Hi! I am currently working on module that (in GNU software)
          will be able to read/write cpio format (only ascii). Thus i am
          separating some of cpio structures into libcpio. I've been
          going through cop
          /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2003-06/msg00422.html (5,430 bytes)
          
   5. RE: Problem when building on HP-UX 11i(11.11) (score: 4)
          Author: "Leon Strydom" <leon.strydom@tasima.co.za>
          Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 09:10:02 +0200
          Hi Bob, I got it to compile, thanks. The reason why I had to
          try GNU-Tar is because of the 2GB file size limit problems:
          Here are the errors I got: With TAR(hp-ux 11i tar): CMD: tar
          cvf backup.tar /a
          /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2003-03/msg00106.html (5,191 bytes)
          
   6. cpio - large file support (score: 35)
          Author: "Keith Ansell" <keitha@edp.fastfreenet.com>
          Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 16:24:37 -0000
          Can you help. I need to archive a large database, this will
          create a cpio file greater than 2 Gigabytes. Have you added
          large file support to the build of cpio. Regards Keith
          Ansell.....
          /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2003-03/msg00024.html (4,329 bytes)
          
   7. cpio-2.5 typos (score: 36)
          Author: Thomas Klausner <wiz@danbala.ifoer.tuwien.ac.at>
          Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 23:53:38 +0100
          In cpio-2.5, in cpio.texi (and thus cpio.1) and main.c the word
          'compatibility' is misspelled as 'compatability'. Please fix,
          thanks. Thomas -- Thomas Klausner - wiz@bogus.example.com What
          is wanted
          /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-12/msg00200.html (3,783 bytes)
          
   9. Re: bug in cpio with tapechange in copy-in-mode (score: 46)
          Author: Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
          Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 12:28:33 -0700 (PDT)
          Thanks for your bug report. Can you please verify that the bug
          still exists in the latest CPIO version
          <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/cpio/cpio-2.5.tar.gz>, and if so, please
          send a patch to <bug-cpio@bogus.
          /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-08/msg00127.html (4,275 bytes)
          
   10. bug in cpio with tapechange in copy-in-mode (score: 34)
          Author: Bernd =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sch=FCler?=
          <b.schueler@eckert-buerotechnik.de>
          Date: 05 Aug 2002 18:37:56 +0200
          Hello, last i made a restore from tape, and no request for next
          tape happend, only an read-error occured. Here is an quick
          patch, please verify the problem and the patch-code. I'm not
          sure, if the pr
          /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-08/msg00122.html (4,518 bytes)
          
   11. Re: CPIO Bug ? (score: 36)
          Author: Albert Chin <bug-gnu-utils@lists.thewrittenword.com>
          Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 19:31:04 -0500
          I think the default CPIO format understands only 16-bit inodes.
          Look at the -H option. '-H newc' should work better for you. --
          albert chin (china@bogus.example.com)
          /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-07/msg00091.html (4,286 bytes)
          
   14. Re: bug in cpio? (score: 40)
          Author: kasal@matsrv.math.cas.cz (Stepan Kasal)
          Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 07:44:14 +0000 (UTC)
          Hallo, the following option should help: -d, --make-directories
          Create leading directories where needed. Details: cpio won't
          create the directory for the file. Observe: kasal$ echo
          /home/kasal/tmp/db
          /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-06/msg00306.html (4,862 bytes)
          
   15. bug in cpio? (score: 34)
          Author: "Jeff Holt" <jeff.holt@hotsos.com>
          Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 14:07:59 -0500
          According to the man page, I should be able to extract an
          absolute pathname from an archive and have the file created
          relative to the current directory (by removing the leading
          &#8216;/&#8217;).<o:p>
          /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-06/msg00296.html (5,331 bytes)
          
   16. CPIO Bug ? (score: 35)
          Author: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Gr=E9goire_Fiot?=
          <gfiot@eiffageconstruction.fr>
          Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 17:01:18 +0200
          Hello, We ve got a problem here using cpio: many "troncating
          inode number" appear during the process: cpio -ocv Is that a
          real problem? Does it corrupt files? Well.. what does that
          mean? We have look
          /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-05/msg00333.html (3,855 bytes)
          
   23. [cpio texinfo] typo (score: 2)
          Author: fabrice bauzac <fabrice.bauzac@wanadoo.fr>
          Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 16:37:28 +0200
          Good afternoon, There is a typo in the Texinfo documentation of
          GNU cpio, node "Copy-in mode": [--format=format]
          [--owner=[user][:.][group]] [--no- preserve-owner]
          [--message=message] [--help] [--ver
          /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-05/msg00153.html (4,040 bytes)
          
   26. cpio: memory exhausted (score: 43)
          Author: Thomas McLaughlin <tamm@scotlegal.com>
          Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 09:51:18 +0100
          This is probably not the place for my query, but I have
          exhausted other avenues and would be glad of some help. I can't
          work out what's going on with my nightly cpio backup. If I do:
          cd / find . -pri
          /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-04/msg00406.html (4,988 bytes)
          
   30. cpio 2.4.2 bug? (score: 40)
          Author: "H.J. Thomassen" <H.J.Thomassen@ATComputing.nl>
          Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 18:09:10 +0100 (CET)
          Hello, We use GNU-cpio 2.4.2 and have the following problem:
          Short: Assume I have a directory with two filenames, which are
          hardlinks to the same i-node. I make a crc-cpio archive with
          both files; th
          /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-01/msg00161.html (5,624 bytes)
          
   32. GNU cpio suggestion (score: 42)
          Author: "H.J.Thomassen" <hjt@ATComputing.nl>
          Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 11:27:11 +0100
          Re: suggestion for GNU-cpio extension (plus reference
          implementation) We use cpio for our backup purposes. The backup
          is started automatically in the middle of the night. To chase
          away all users we d
          /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-12/msg00244.html (7,474 bytes)
          
   35. GNU cpio compile problem (score: 34)
          Author: Daniel Savard <dsavard@videotron.ca>
          Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 12:43:11 -0500
          Hi, I am trying to make the GNU cpio utility (version 2.4.2)
          using the gcc 3.0.2 compiler. The make failed on the userspec.c
          file compilation. I then tried to compile with gcc 2.95.3 with
          the followi
          /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-11/msg00180.html (5,518 bytes)
          
   36. cpio -d bug (fwd) (score: 47)
          Author: Christian Smith <csmith@micromuse.com>
          Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 02:06:46 +0000 (GMT)
          This was bounced from bug-cpio@bogus.example.com I guess that
          isn't set up yet. -- /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN - AGAINST
          HTML MAIL X - AGAINST MS ATTACHMENTS / \ $ cpio --version GNU
          cpio version 2
          /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-11/msg00170.html (4,548 bytes)
          
   38. [cpio] man page enhancement: a Example section ? (score: 5)
          Author: Yannick Patois <patois@calvix.org>
          Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 12:48:33 +0200 (CEST)
          Hello, I seldom use cpio (as I think many people) and only had
          to use it once or twice. IMHA, would be good to have a small
          section with an example of most often performed actions
          (creating an archiv
          /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-10/msg00270.html (4,336 bytes)
          
   39. Patch to cpio to enable verbose *skipping* of files (score: 40)
          Author: Tomas Pospisek <tpo@sourcepole.ch>
          Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 13:54:14 +0200 (CEST)
          This patch enables cpio to be verbose about the files that it
          does not copy, which is very handy for seeing cpio's progress
          through a tape or simply for debuging. The patch along with a
          Debian packag
          /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-10/msg00083.html (4,548 bytes)
          
   40. cpio-2.4.2 patch (score: 39)
          Author: Alex Efros <powerman@sky.net.ua>
          Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 07:36:31 +0300 (EEST)
          Hi. Linux-2.4.9, GCC-3.0, GLIBC-2.2.4, cpio-2.4.2. Compile-time
          errors: --cut-- gcc -c -DRETSIGTYPE=void -DHAVE_SYS_MTIO_H=1
          -DHAVE_NETDB_H=1 -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1
          -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHA
          /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-08/msg00264.html (5,259 bytes)
          
   41. cpio copy-in and multiply-linked files (score: 35)
          Author: Chris Jaeger <cjaeger@ensim.com>
          Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 23:46:04 -0700
          Hi, I was wondering whether it was a bug or a feature that GNU
          cpio, while in copy-in mode, will create a multiply-linked set
          of files all of size 0 if the last linked file is not copied in
          due to th
          /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-08/msg00074.html (4,142 bytes)
          
   42. Re: minor problems with slackware-current (score: 7)
          Author: Cezary Sliwa <sliwa@cft.edu.pl>
          Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 10:43:37 +0200
          "cpio --sparse" corrupts data. A fix attached. C.S. Attachment:
          cpio-2.4.2-sparse.diff Description: Text document
          /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-08/msg00000.html (3,989 bytes)
          
   43. (no subject) (score: 2)
          Author: brian@debian.org (Brian Mays)
          Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 16:35:13 -0400
          When hard-linked files (along with many other files) are
          archived to a cpio ustar format archive, the files are _not_
          all archived as hard links to each other in the archive. When
          the same set of fil
          /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-07/msg00080.html (5,666 bytes)
          
   44. gnu cpio and files over 2G (score: 37)
          Author: J.S.Peatfield@damtp.cam.ac.uk
          Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 06:28:18 +0100
          As an increasing number of opertaing systems now support files
          over 2G I took a look at the cpio (2.4.2) source to see how
          hard it would be to make it cope, and was slightly shocked at
          the number of
          /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-05/msg00010.html (4,802 bytes)
          
   45. cpio suggestion + patch (score: 38)
          Author: Taylor Gautier <tgautier@s8.com>
          Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 09:40:05 -0700
          I have a suggestion for cpio. The suggestion is to make it copy
          files into a temporary name and then rename the file as the
          last operation. Since UNIX filesystems are supposed to
          gaurantee atomicity
          /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-04/msg00169.html (10,674
          bytes)
          
   46. [cpio 2.4.2] rmt build fails (score: 8)
          Author: Gert <n8w8@n8w8.wox.org>
          Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 21:28:52 +0200 (CEST)
          Hi, The cpio 2.4.2 rmt tool fails to build on my system. I run
          the following software: - Linux 2.4.2 - GCC 2.95.2 - GNU Make
          3.79.1 - GNU ld 2.10 (with BFD 2.10) - glibc 2.1.3 The build
          fails like th
          /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-03/msg00262.html (5,498 bytes)
          
   47. cpio --sparse (score: 34)
          Author: Cezary Sliwa <sliwa@cft.edu.pl>
          Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 10:43:34 +0200 (CEST)
          the '--sparse' option of gnu cpio causes data corruption
          (blocks of zeros are lost or appended to other files). C.S.
          /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-03/msg00235.html (3,671 bytes)
          
   49. Re: bug with gnu cpio 2.4.2 (score: 38)
          Author: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker@physik.rwth-aachen.de>
          Date: 6 Mar 2001 15:19:34 GMT
          This would happen if cpio want to do any user interaction (ask
          for the next tape cartridge, because the current one is full,
          e.g.). Cron jobs don't have access to a terminal (/dev/tty), so
          this will
          /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-03/msg00029.html (5,062 bytes)
          
   50. bug with gnu cpio 2.4.2 (score: 37)
          Author: dominique.bieber@sagem.com
          Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 12:27:14 +0100
          Hi, I have a problem using cpio with a Red Hat 6.2 whith a
          2.2.14-5.0smp kernel. The backup device is a HP DAT DDS4 20/40
          with the right cartridge. The cpio is launched by the cron.
          During the backup
          /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-03/msg00024.html (4,315 bytes)
          
   52. [PATCH] cpio 2.4.2 does not compile with libc 2.2, gcc 2.95
          (score: 38)
          Author: "John Fremlin" <chief@bandits.org>
          Date: 11 Feb 2001 22:19:09 +0000
          In fact it violates the GNU coding standards by declaring stuff
          when it shouldn't. Tsk, tsk. Attachment: cpio-2.4.2-build.patch
          Description: Text Data -- http://www.penguinpowered.com/~vii
          /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-02/msg00065.html (4,169 bytes)
          
   53. cpio-2.4.2: data corruption bug (score: 35)
          Author: Todd Kelley <toddk@oeone.com>
          Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 17:00:06 -0500
          Hello, Recently at OEone we fixed a bug in GNU cpio-2.4.2: When
          a file over about 0.5 megabyes grows while it is being
          archived, it and all files following it in the archive are
          corrupted. The crc do
          /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-02/msg00062.html (4,297 bytes)
          
   54. cpio 2.4.2 unconditionally takes the tape drive offline (score:
          39)
          Author: Scott Larson <scowl@plaza.ds.adp.com>
          Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 13:15:52 -0800
          We have been copying multiple volumes to a single tape with the
          System 5 version of cpio. The gnu version of cpio doesn't
          support this since it takes the tape offline (i.e. ejects the
          tape) after rea
          /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-01/msg00087.html (4,264 bytes)
          
   55. cpio -t can see international filenames, find -ls also suffers
          (score: 35)
          Author: "Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@kimo.FiXcomTHiS.tw>
          Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 07:38:53 +0800
          GNU cpio version 2.4.2 with cpio -t I can see Chinese [big5]
          filenames. with -tv, they become \267\247 etc Just like what
          happens with find . -print vs. find . -ls --
          http://www.geocities.com/jidanni
          /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2000-12/msg00143.html (4,084 bytes)
          
   56. cpio-2.4.2 compilation problems (score: 34)
          Author: Thomas =?iso-8859-1?q?K=F6ller?= <tkoeller@gmx.net>
          Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 02:50:24 +0100
          I encountered several problems building cpio-2.4.2. I am
          running linux-2.2.17, glibc-2.1.3 and gcc 2.95.2. The errors I
          received were mostly due to the source files re-declaring
          things unconditionall
          /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2000-12/msg00109.html (5,782 bytes)
          
   58. cpio-2.4.2 & glibc-2.* (score: 46)
          Author: Florian Wunderlich <fwunderlich@devbrain.de>
          Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 16:25:00 +0100
          I still do not see a new version of cpio or at least extra
          patches that fix it so it works with the glibc. Thus, here is a
          simple patch to make it compile with glibc: diff -u
          cpio-2.4.2-old/rmt.c cpi
          /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2000-12/msg00098.html (4,846 bytes)
          
   60. cpio-2.4.2 signed-unsigned int disagreement with malloc (score:
          39)
          Author: Antonomasia <ant@notatla.demon.co.uk>
          Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 07:05:01 GMT
          copyin.c: 534 link_name = (char *) xmalloc ((unsigned int)
          file_hdr.c_filesize + 1); 535 link_name[file_hdr.c_filesize] =
          '\0'; file_hdr.c_filesize can be a large negative number as
          seen here then th
          /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2000-11/msg00171.html (4,718 bytes)
          
   61. gnu CPIO (score: 38)
          Author: Clark Cooper <Clark.Cooper@vc3.com>
          Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 13:21:07 -0500 (EST)
          The gnu version of CPIO appears to send all output to stderr.
          Take for instance a need to have the list of files copied and
          any errors separated as should be produced by the following:
          find . -print
          /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2000-11/msg00089.html (3,903 bytes)
          
   62. Desire enhancement to GNU cpio 2.4.2 (score: 35)
          Author: Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>
          Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 10:24:56 -0600
          I have a new GNU/Linux system with large disks on which I need
          to generate cpio files for many different systems including
          older ones that don't support the "newc" format, only the "odc"
          format. The
          /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2000-11/msg00087.html (5,115 bytes)
          
   65. cpio pass-through can corrupt files (score: 36)
          Author: "Parrott, Jeff" <Jeff.Parrott@sea.siemens.com>
          Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 13:32:57 -0400
          I have seen corrupted files as a result of using the
          pass-through option in cpio. The corruption occurs when
          active/in-use (and growing) files are being copied. The problem
          is that the file size has
          /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2000-10/msg00087.html (4,974 bytes)
          
   66. [Bug-gnu-utils] A small problem with cpio (score: 36)
          Author: Chris Hall <Chris@clapham.org>
          Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 11:05:56 +0100
          Hi, I'm running cpio 2.4.2 on AIX 4.3.3 and have a problem with
          very large files, I get this output when running the command: $
          ls -l total 2867988 drwxrwxrwx 2 root sys 512 Sep 14 17:05
          chris/ -rw-r
          /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2000-09/msg00004.html (4,481 bytes)