bin/74801: cpio -p --sparse creates truncated files

[Nate Eldredge]

The following reply was made to PR bin/74801; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Nate Eldredge <nge at cs.hmc.edu>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, tte at fau.de
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/74801: cpio -p --sparse creates truncated files
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 15:09:23 -0700 (PDT)

 This appears to have been fixed in CURRENT with the merge of GNU cpio 2.6. 
 I can't reproduce it there, but I can on 5.4-RELEASE-p7.
 
 I posted a copy of the file in question at 
 http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~nate/sparse-testcase.bin .  It appears to depend on 
 the specific file, since a simple testcase made with echo and truncate 
 didn't trigger the bug.
 
 -- 
 Nate Eldredge
 nge at cs.hmc.edu