Re: [Bug-cpio] [PATCH] Fix creation of newc/crc archives with files containing multiple hard links

[Dmitry V. Levin]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 03:05:32AM +0300, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> * src/copyout.c (count_defered_links_to_dev_ino): Make return type
> unsigned.  Fix local variable types to match cpio_file_stat members
> types.
> (last_link): Make link count type unsigned.
> (writeout_other_defers): Fix local variable types to match
> cpio_file_stat members types.
> (writeout_final_defers): Make link count type unsigned.
> ---
>  If a hardlink that was going to be archived had an inode number greater
>  than MAX_INT, it was archived as an empty file.

Commit 7c5fda3fbada772e53e0c347621921a8111738c0 (Fix inode number typing)
fixes types of inode variables, so it should fix the whole problem.
Other changes of variable types I proposed are less important but still
worth applying.


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