Re: [Bug-cpio] Bug-cpio lost timestamp and lost owner in 2.9

[Robert Millan]

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 02:42:48AM +0000, Clint Adams wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 11:37:51PM +0200, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> > This bug has been fixed in the cpio repository. No official versions
> > have been released since then. I plan to release next version by the
> > end of this month. It will be available, as usual, from
> > ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/cpio. If you wish, I can prepare a test tarball
> > for you.
> 
> I have the following four patches which are still applicable to 2.9.90:
> 
> 1) missing space in cpio.texi (fixed in CVS)
> 2) Robert Millan's patch to set O_BINARY where available
> 3) pack old_cpio_header and old_ascii_header structs to avoid breakage
>    on old ARM ABI.
> 4) pax exit code stuff (fixed in git)
> 
> Do I recall correctly that #2 was to be fixed upstream a different way
> or did I make that up?

Hi Clint,

I reviewed my mail archives.  Sergey said a patch was being fixed in a
different way, but it was not this one (it was the patch that introduced
initial mingw32 support).

The O_BINARY one was sent in early 2008:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-cpio/2008-02/msg00000.html

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