cpio incorrectly dereferencing symlinks

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Tue Oct 4 22:41:01 PDT 2005


The new cpio (invoked by cpio -dump) copies symlinks by dereferencing
them, i.e. copying the files they point to, instead of the symlinks
themselves.  This is a regression.

Kris




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