1 Following is the list of cpio-related reports to bug-gnu-utils.
2 Many of them appear to be fixed, but quite a number of them is
3 probably still waiting for being handled. The list is sorted
4 in reverse chronological order.
6 4. copyin.c cpio probably questions/rfc (score: 35)
7 Author: Grzegorz Jaskiewicz <gj@pointblue.com.pl>
8 Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 17:12:45 +0100
9 Hi! I am currently working on module that (in GNU software)
10 will be able to read/write cpio format (only ascii). Thus i am
11 separating some of cpio structures into libcpio. I've been
13 /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2003-06/msg00422.html (5,430 bytes)
15 5. RE: Problem when building on HP-UX 11i(11.11) (score: 4)
16 Author: "Leon Strydom" <leon.strydom@tasima.co.za>
17 Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 09:10:02 +0200
18 Hi Bob, I got it to compile, thanks. The reason why I had to
19 try GNU-Tar is because of the 2GB file size limit problems:
20 Here are the errors I got: With TAR(hp-ux 11i tar): CMD: tar
22 /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2003-03/msg00106.html (5,191 bytes)
24 6. cpio - large file support (score: 35)
25 Author: "Keith Ansell" <keitha@edp.fastfreenet.com>
26 Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 16:24:37 -0000
27 Can you help. I need to archive a large database, this will
28 create a cpio file greater than 2 Gigabytes. Have you added
29 large file support to the build of cpio. Regards Keith
31 /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2003-03/msg00024.html (4,329 bytes)
33 7. cpio-2.5 typos (score: 36)
34 Author: Thomas Klausner <wiz@danbala.ifoer.tuwien.ac.at>
35 Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 23:53:38 +0100
36 In cpio-2.5, in cpio.texi (and thus cpio.1) and main.c the word
37 'compatibility' is misspelled as 'compatability'. Please fix,
38 thanks. Thomas -- Thomas Klausner - wiz@bogus.example.com What
40 /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-12/msg00200.html (3,783 bytes)
42 9. Re: bug in cpio with tapechange in copy-in-mode (score: 46)
43 Author: Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
44 Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 12:28:33 -0700 (PDT)
45 Thanks for your bug report. Can you please verify that the bug
46 still exists in the latest CPIO version
47 <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/cpio/cpio-2.5.tar.gz>, and if so, please
48 send a patch to <bug-cpio@bogus.
49 /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-08/msg00127.html (4,275 bytes)
51 10. bug in cpio with tapechange in copy-in-mode (score: 34)
52 Author: Bernd =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sch=FCler?=
53 <b.schueler@eckert-buerotechnik.de>
54 Date: 05 Aug 2002 18:37:56 +0200
55 Hello, last i made a restore from tape, and no request for next
56 tape happend, only an read-error occured. Here is an quick
57 patch, please verify the problem and the patch-code. I'm not
59 /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-08/msg00122.html (4,518 bytes)
61 11. Re: CPIO Bug ? (score: 36)
62 Author: Albert Chin <bug-gnu-utils@lists.thewrittenword.com>
63 Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 19:31:04 -0500
64 I think the default CPIO format understands only 16-bit inodes.
65 Look at the -H option. '-H newc' should work better for you. --
66 albert chin (china@bogus.example.com)
67 /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-07/msg00091.html (4,286 bytes)
69 14. Re: bug in cpio? (score: 40)
70 Author: kasal@matsrv.math.cas.cz (Stepan Kasal)
71 Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 07:44:14 +0000 (UTC)
72 Hallo, the following option should help: -d, --make-directories
73 Create leading directories where needed. Details: cpio won't
74 create the directory for the file. Observe: kasal$ echo
76 /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-06/msg00306.html (4,862 bytes)
78 15. bug in cpio? (score: 34)
79 Author: "Jeff Holt" <jeff.holt@hotsos.com>
80 Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 14:07:59 -0500
81 According to the man page, I should be able to extract an
82 absolute pathname from an archive and have the file created
83 relative to the current directory (by removing the leading
84 ‘/’).<o:p>
85 /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-06/msg00296.html (5,331 bytes)
87 16. CPIO Bug ? (score: 35)
88 Author: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Gr=E9goire_Fiot?=
89 <gfiot@eiffageconstruction.fr>
90 Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 17:01:18 +0200
91 Hello, We ve got a problem here using cpio: many "troncating
92 inode number" appear during the process: cpio -ocv Is that a
93 real problem? Does it corrupt files? Well.. what does that
95 /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-05/msg00333.html (3,855 bytes)
97 23. [cpio texinfo] typo (score: 2)
98 Author: fabrice bauzac <fabrice.bauzac@wanadoo.fr>
99 Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 16:37:28 +0200
100 Good afternoon, There is a typo in the Texinfo documentation of
101 GNU cpio, node "Copy-in mode": [--format=format]
102 [--owner=[user][:.][group]] [--no- preserve-owner]
103 [--message=message] [--help] [--ver
104 /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-05/msg00153.html (4,040 bytes)
106 26. cpio: memory exhausted (score: 43)
107 Author: Thomas McLaughlin <tamm@scotlegal.com>
108 Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 09:51:18 +0100
109 This is probably not the place for my query, but I have
110 exhausted other avenues and would be glad of some help. I can't
111 work out what's going on with my nightly cpio backup. If I do:
113 /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-04/msg00406.html (4,988 bytes)
115 30. cpio 2.4.2 bug? (score: 40)
116 Author: "H.J. Thomassen" <H.J.Thomassen@ATComputing.nl>
117 Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 18:09:10 +0100 (CET)
118 Hello, We use GNU-cpio 2.4.2 and have the following problem:
119 Short: Assume I have a directory with two filenames, which are
120 hardlinks to the same i-node. I make a crc-cpio archive with
122 /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-01/msg00161.html (5,624 bytes)
124 32. GNU cpio suggestion (score: 42)
125 Author: "H.J.Thomassen" <hjt@ATComputing.nl>
126 Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 11:27:11 +0100
127 Re: suggestion for GNU-cpio extension (plus reference
128 implementation) We use cpio for our backup purposes. The backup
129 is started automatically in the middle of the night. To chase
131 /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-12/msg00244.html (7,474 bytes)
133 35. GNU cpio compile problem (score: 34)
134 Author: Daniel Savard <dsavard@videotron.ca>
135 Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 12:43:11 -0500
136 Hi, I am trying to make the GNU cpio utility (version 2.4.2)
137 using the gcc 3.0.2 compiler. The make failed on the userspec.c
138 file compilation. I then tried to compile with gcc 2.95.3 with
140 /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-11/msg00180.html (5,518 bytes)
142 36. cpio -d bug (fwd) (score: 47)
143 Author: Christian Smith <csmith@micromuse.com>
144 Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 02:06:46 +0000 (GMT)
145 This was bounced from bug-cpio@bogus.example.com I guess that
146 isn't set up yet. -- /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN - AGAINST
147 HTML MAIL X - AGAINST MS ATTACHMENTS / \ $ cpio --version GNU
149 /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-11/msg00170.html (4,548 bytes)
151 38. [cpio] man page enhancement: a Example section ? (score: 5)
152 Author: Yannick Patois <patois@calvix.org>
153 Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 12:48:33 +0200 (CEST)
154 Hello, I seldom use cpio (as I think many people) and only had
155 to use it once or twice. IMHA, would be good to have a small
156 section with an example of most often performed actions
158 /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-10/msg00270.html (4,336 bytes)
160 39. Patch to cpio to enable verbose *skipping* of files (score: 40)
161 Author: Tomas Pospisek <tpo@sourcepole.ch>
162 Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 13:54:14 +0200 (CEST)
163 This patch enables cpio to be verbose about the files that it
164 does not copy, which is very handy for seeing cpio's progress
165 through a tape or simply for debuging. The patch along with a
167 /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-10/msg00083.html (4,548 bytes)
169 40. cpio-2.4.2 patch (score: 39)
170 Author: Alex Efros <powerman@sky.net.ua>
171 Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 07:36:31 +0300 (EEST)
172 Hi. Linux-2.4.9, GCC-3.0, GLIBC-2.2.4, cpio-2.4.2. Compile-time
173 errors: --cut-- gcc -c -DRETSIGTYPE=void -DHAVE_SYS_MTIO_H=1
174 -DHAVE_NETDB_H=1 -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1
175 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHA
176 /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-08/msg00264.html (5,259 bytes)
178 41. cpio copy-in and multiply-linked files (score: 35)
179 Author: Chris Jaeger <cjaeger@ensim.com>
180 Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 23:46:04 -0700
181 Hi, I was wondering whether it was a bug or a feature that GNU
182 cpio, while in copy-in mode, will create a multiply-linked set
183 of files all of size 0 if the last linked file is not copied in
185 /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-08/msg00074.html (4,142 bytes)
187 42. Re: minor problems with slackware-current (score: 7)
188 Author: Cezary Sliwa <sliwa@cft.edu.pl>
189 Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 10:43:37 +0200
190 "cpio --sparse" corrupts data. A fix attached. C.S. Attachment:
191 cpio-2.4.2-sparse.diff Description: Text document
192 /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-08/msg00000.html (3,989 bytes)
194 43. (no subject) (score: 2)
195 Author: brian@debian.org (Brian Mays)
196 Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 16:35:13 -0400
197 When hard-linked files (along with many other files) are
198 archived to a cpio ustar format archive, the files are _not_
199 all archived as hard links to each other in the archive. When
201 /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-07/msg00080.html (5,666 bytes)
203 44. gnu cpio and files over 2G (score: 37)
204 Author: J.S.Peatfield@damtp.cam.ac.uk
205 Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 06:28:18 +0100
206 As an increasing number of opertaing systems now support files
207 over 2G I took a look at the cpio (2.4.2) source to see how
208 hard it would be to make it cope, and was slightly shocked at
210 /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-05/msg00010.html (4,802 bytes)
212 45. cpio suggestion + patch (score: 38)
213 Author: Taylor Gautier <tgautier@s8.com>
214 Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 09:40:05 -0700
215 I have a suggestion for cpio. The suggestion is to make it copy
216 files into a temporary name and then rename the file as the
217 last operation. Since UNIX filesystems are supposed to
219 /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-04/msg00169.html (10,674
222 46. [cpio 2.4.2] rmt build fails (score: 8)
223 Author: Gert <n8w8@n8w8.wox.org>
224 Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 21:28:52 +0200 (CEST)
225 Hi, The cpio 2.4.2 rmt tool fails to build on my system. I run
226 the following software: - Linux 2.4.2 - GCC 2.95.2 - GNU Make
227 3.79.1 - GNU ld 2.10 (with BFD 2.10) - glibc 2.1.3 The build
229 /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-03/msg00262.html (5,498 bytes)
231 47. cpio --sparse (score: 34)
232 Author: Cezary Sliwa <sliwa@cft.edu.pl>
233 Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 10:43:34 +0200 (CEST)
234 the '--sparse' option of gnu cpio causes data corruption
235 (blocks of zeros are lost or appended to other files). C.S.
236 /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-03/msg00235.html (3,671 bytes)
238 49. Re: bug with gnu cpio 2.4.2 (score: 38)
239 Author: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker@physik.rwth-aachen.de>
240 Date: 6 Mar 2001 15:19:34 GMT
241 This would happen if cpio want to do any user interaction (ask
242 for the next tape cartridge, because the current one is full,
243 e.g.). Cron jobs don't have access to a terminal (/dev/tty), so
245 /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-03/msg00029.html (5,062 bytes)
247 50. bug with gnu cpio 2.4.2 (score: 37)
248 Author: dominique.bieber@sagem.com
249 Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 12:27:14 +0100
250 Hi, I have a problem using cpio with a Red Hat 6.2 whith a
251 2.2.14-5.0smp kernel. The backup device is a HP DAT DDS4 20/40
252 with the right cartridge. The cpio is launched by the cron.
254 /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-03/msg00024.html (4,315 bytes)
256 52. [PATCH] cpio 2.4.2 does not compile with libc 2.2, gcc 2.95
258 Author: "John Fremlin" <chief@bandits.org>
259 Date: 11 Feb 2001 22:19:09 +0000
260 In fact it violates the GNU coding standards by declaring stuff
261 when it shouldn't. Tsk, tsk. Attachment: cpio-2.4.2-build.patch
262 Description: Text Data -- http://www.penguinpowered.com/~vii
263 /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-02/msg00065.html (4,169 bytes)
265 53. cpio-2.4.2: data corruption bug (score: 35)
266 Author: Todd Kelley <toddk@oeone.com>
267 Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 17:00:06 -0500
268 Hello, Recently at OEone we fixed a bug in GNU cpio-2.4.2: When
269 a file over about 0.5 megabyes grows while it is being
270 archived, it and all files following it in the archive are
271 corrupted. The crc do
272 /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-02/msg00062.html (4,297 bytes)
274 54. cpio 2.4.2 unconditionally takes the tape drive offline (score:
276 Author: Scott Larson <scowl@plaza.ds.adp.com>
277 Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 13:15:52 -0800
278 We have been copying multiple volumes to a single tape with the
279 System 5 version of cpio. The gnu version of cpio doesn't
280 support this since it takes the tape offline (i.e. ejects the
282 /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-01/msg00087.html (4,264 bytes)
284 55. cpio -t can see international filenames, find -ls also suffers
286 Author: "Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@kimo.FiXcomTHiS.tw>
287 Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 07:38:53 +0800
288 GNU cpio version 2.4.2 with cpio -t I can see Chinese [big5]
289 filenames. with -tv, they become \267\247 etc Just like what
290 happens with find . -print vs. find . -ls --
291 http://www.geocities.com/jidanni
292 /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2000-12/msg00143.html (4,084 bytes)
294 56. cpio-2.4.2 compilation problems (score: 34)
295 Author: Thomas =?iso-8859-1?q?K=F6ller?= <tkoeller@gmx.net>
296 Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 02:50:24 +0100
297 I encountered several problems building cpio-2.4.2. I am
298 running linux-2.2.17, glibc-2.1.3 and gcc 2.95.2. The errors I
299 received were mostly due to the source files re-declaring
300 things unconditionall
301 /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2000-12/msg00109.html (5,782 bytes)
303 58. cpio-2.4.2 & glibc-2.* (score: 46)
304 Author: Florian Wunderlich <fwunderlich@devbrain.de>
305 Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 16:25:00 +0100
306 I still do not see a new version of cpio or at least extra
307 patches that fix it so it works with the glibc. Thus, here is a
308 simple patch to make it compile with glibc: diff -u
309 cpio-2.4.2-old/rmt.c cpi
310 /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2000-12/msg00098.html (4,846 bytes)
312 60. cpio-2.4.2 signed-unsigned int disagreement with malloc (score:
314 Author: Antonomasia <ant@notatla.demon.co.uk>
315 Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 07:05:01 GMT
316 copyin.c: 534 link_name = (char *) xmalloc ((unsigned int)
317 file_hdr.c_filesize + 1); 535 link_name[file_hdr.c_filesize] =
318 '\0'; file_hdr.c_filesize can be a large negative number as
320 /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2000-11/msg00171.html (4,718 bytes)
322 61. gnu CPIO (score: 38)
323 Author: Clark Cooper <Clark.Cooper@vc3.com>
324 Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 13:21:07 -0500 (EST)
325 The gnu version of CPIO appears to send all output to stderr.
326 Take for instance a need to have the list of files copied and
327 any errors separated as should be produced by the following:
329 /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2000-11/msg00089.html (3,903 bytes)
331 62. Desire enhancement to GNU cpio 2.4.2 (score: 35)
332 Author: Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>
333 Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 10:24:56 -0600
334 I have a new GNU/Linux system with large disks on which I need
335 to generate cpio files for many different systems including
336 older ones that don't support the "newc" format, only the "odc"
338 /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2000-11/msg00087.html (5,115 bytes)
340 65. cpio pass-through can corrupt files (score: 36)
341 Author: "Parrott, Jeff" <Jeff.Parrott@sea.siemens.com>
342 Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 13:32:57 -0400
343 I have seen corrupted files as a result of using the
344 pass-through option in cpio. The corruption occurs when
345 active/in-use (and growing) files are being copied. The problem
346 is that the file size has
347 /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2000-10/msg00087.html (4,974 bytes)
349 66. [Bug-gnu-utils] A small problem with cpio (score: 36)
350 Author: Chris Hall <Chris@clapham.org>
351 Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 11:05:56 +0100
352 Hi, I'm running cpio 2.4.2 on AIX 4.3.3 and have a problem with
353 very large files, I get this output when running the command: $
354 ls -l total 2867988 drwxrwxrwx 2 root sys 512 Sep 14 17:05
356 /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2000-09/msg00004.html (4,481 bytes)