Re: [Bug-cpio] [PATCH] Add option "--reproducible" for reproducible archives

[Harald Hoyer]

On 08.07.2014 11:11, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> On 03.07.2014 12:30, address@hidden wrote:
>> From: Harald Hoyer <address@hidden>
>>
>> Having the same files and directories on different locations results in
>> different archives, because the inode numbers and devices are not the
>> same.
>>
>> The "--reproducible" flag will assign increasing inode numbers to
>> the files, resulting in equal archives for equal files and directories.
>>
>> A hash table is used to find already assigned inode numbers for linked
>> files.
>> ---
>>  src/copyout.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
>>  src/extern.h  |  5 +++++
>>  src/global.c  |  3 +++
>>  src/main.c    | 14 ++++++++++++--
>>  src/util.c    | 60 
>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  5 files changed, 92 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> ...
> 
> Sergey, any comments?
> 

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