cpio 2.4.2: lose the useless "truncating inode number" message already

[Jamie Zawinski]

As far as I understand it, no purpose is served by having cpio
print "cpio: <file>: truncating inode number" to stderr for 
*every single file* it places in an archive.

Yes, I could just redirect stderr to /dev/null and also ignore
legitimate errors (obviously a bad idea.)

Yes, I could pipe stderr through grep to ignore this one 
particular error (obviously a hassle.)

But wouldn't it be better if cpio would just knock off this 
annoying and useless behavior?

If you think that in some esoteric circumstances, this error message 
is actually useful, then how about adding an --inode-me-harder option 
to *enable* it, and leave it off by default?

Thanks...

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Jamie Zawinski
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