Following is the list of cpio-related reports to bug-gnu-utils. Many of them appear to be fixed, but quite a number of them is probably still waiting for being handled. The list is sorted in reverse chronological order. 3. [cpio] Extracting to stdout (score: 10) Author: Vincent Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 21:14:09 -0500 Hi. Is there any specific reason you cannot extract archives to stdout. I often need that ability to operate on the data as a stream. I commonly use it with tar but could not find any way of doing it /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2003-07/msg00454.html (3,737 bytes) 4. copyin.c cpio probably questions/rfc (score: 35) Author: Grzegorz Jaskiewicz Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 17:12:45 +0100 Hi! I am currently working on module that (in GNU software) will be able to read/write cpio format (only ascii). Thus i am separating some of cpio structures into libcpio. I've been going through cop /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2003-06/msg00422.html (5,430 bytes) 5. RE: Problem when building on HP-UX 11i(11.11) (score: 4) Author: "Leon Strydom" Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 09:10:02 +0200 Hi Bob, I got it to compile, thanks. The reason why I had to try GNU-Tar is because of the 2GB file size limit problems: Here are the errors I got: With TAR(hp-ux 11i tar): CMD: tar cvf backup.tar /a /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2003-03/msg00106.html (5,191 bytes) 6. cpio - large file support (score: 35) Author: "Keith Ansell" Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 16:24:37 -0000 Can you help. I need to archive a large database, this will create a cpio file greater than 2 Gigabytes. Have you added large file support to the build of cpio. Regards Keith Ansell..... /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2003-03/msg00024.html (4,329 bytes) 7. cpio-2.5 typos (score: 36) Author: Thomas Klausner Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 23:53:38 +0100 In cpio-2.5, in cpio.texi (and thus cpio.1) and main.c the word 'compatibility' is misspelled as 'compatability'. Please fix, thanks. Thomas -- Thomas Klausner - wiz@bogus.example.com What is wanted /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-12/msg00200.html (3,783 bytes) 9. Re: bug in cpio with tapechange in copy-in-mode (score: 46) Author: Paul Eggert Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 12:28:33 -0700 (PDT) Thanks for your bug report. Can you please verify that the bug still exists in the latest CPIO version , and if so, please send a patch to Date: 05 Aug 2002 18:37:56 +0200 Hello, last i made a restore from tape, and no request for next tape happend, only an read-error occured. Here is an quick patch, please verify the problem and the patch-code. I'm not sure, if the pr /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-08/msg00122.html (4,518 bytes) 11. Re: CPIO Bug ? (score: 36) Author: Albert Chin Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 19:31:04 -0500 I think the default CPIO format understands only 16-bit inodes. Look at the -H option. '-H newc' should work better for you. -- albert chin (china@bogus.example.com) /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-07/msg00091.html (4,286 bytes) 14. Re: bug in cpio? (score: 40) Author: kasal@matsrv.math.cas.cz (Stepan Kasal) Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 07:44:14 +0000 (UTC) Hallo, the following option should help: -d, --make-directories Create leading directories where needed. Details: cpio won't create the directory for the file. Observe: kasal$ echo /home/kasal/tmp/db /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-06/msg00306.html (4,862 bytes) 15. bug in cpio? (score: 34) Author: "Jeff Holt" Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 14:07:59 -0500 According to the man page, I should be able to extract an absolute pathname from an archive and have the file created relative to the current directory (by removing the leading ‘/’). /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-06/msg00296.html (5,331 bytes) 16. CPIO Bug ? (score: 35) Author: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Gr=E9goire_Fiot?= Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 17:01:18 +0200 Hello, We ve got a problem here using cpio: many "troncating inode number" appear during the process: cpio -ocv Is that a real problem? Does it corrupt files? Well.. what does that mean? We have look /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-05/msg00333.html (3,855 bytes) 23. [cpio texinfo] typo (score: 2) Author: fabrice bauzac Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 16:37:28 +0200 Good afternoon, There is a typo in the Texinfo documentation of GNU cpio, node "Copy-in mode": [--format=format] [--owner=[user][:.][group]] [--no- preserve-owner] [--message=message] [--help] [--ver /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-05/msg00153.html (4,040 bytes) 26. cpio: memory exhausted (score: 43) Author: Thomas McLaughlin Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 09:51:18 +0100 This is probably not the place for my query, but I have exhausted other avenues and would be glad of some help. I can't work out what's going on with my nightly cpio backup. If I do: cd / find . -pri /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-04/msg00406.html (4,988 bytes) 30. cpio 2.4.2 bug? (score: 40) Author: "H.J. Thomassen" Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 18:09:10 +0100 (CET) Hello, We use GNU-cpio 2.4.2 and have the following problem: Short: Assume I have a directory with two filenames, which are hardlinks to the same i-node. I make a crc-cpio archive with both files; th /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-01/msg00161.html (5,624 bytes) 32. GNU cpio suggestion (score: 42) Author: "H.J.Thomassen" Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 11:27:11 +0100 Re: suggestion for GNU-cpio extension (plus reference implementation) We use cpio for our backup purposes. The backup is started automatically in the middle of the night. To chase away all users we d /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-12/msg00244.html (7,474 bytes) 35. GNU cpio compile problem (score: 34) Author: Daniel Savard Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 12:43:11 -0500 Hi, I am trying to make the GNU cpio utility (version 2.4.2) using the gcc 3.0.2 compiler. The make failed on the userspec.c file compilation. I then tried to compile with gcc 2.95.3 with the followi /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-11/msg00180.html (5,518 bytes) 36. cpio -d bug (fwd) (score: 47) Author: Christian Smith Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 02:06:46 +0000 (GMT) This was bounced from bug-cpio@bogus.example.com I guess that isn't set up yet. -- /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN - AGAINST HTML MAIL X - AGAINST MS ATTACHMENTS / \ $ cpio --version GNU cpio version 2 /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-11/msg00170.html (4,548 bytes) 38. [cpio] man page enhancement: a Example section ? (score: 5) Author: Yannick Patois Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 12:48:33 +0200 (CEST) Hello, I seldom use cpio (as I think many people) and only had to use it once or twice. IMHA, would be good to have a small section with an example of most often performed actions (creating an archiv /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-10/msg00270.html (4,336 bytes) 39. Patch to cpio to enable verbose *skipping* of files (score: 40) Author: Tomas Pospisek Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 13:54:14 +0200 (CEST) This patch enables cpio to be verbose about the files that it does not copy, which is very handy for seeing cpio's progress through a tape or simply for debuging. The patch along with a Debian packag /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-10/msg00083.html (4,548 bytes) 40. cpio-2.4.2 patch (score: 39) Author: Alex Efros Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 07:36:31 +0300 (EEST) Hi. Linux-2.4.9, GCC-3.0, GLIBC-2.2.4, cpio-2.4.2. Compile-time errors: --cut-- gcc -c -DRETSIGTYPE=void -DHAVE_SYS_MTIO_H=1 -DHAVE_NETDB_H=1 -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHA /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-08/msg00264.html (5,259 bytes) 41. cpio copy-in and multiply-linked files (score: 35) Author: Chris Jaeger Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 23:46:04 -0700 Hi, I was wondering whether it was a bug or a feature that GNU cpio, while in copy-in mode, will create a multiply-linked set of files all of size 0 if the last linked file is not copied in due to th /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-08/msg00074.html (4,142 bytes) 42. Re: minor problems with slackware-current (score: 7) Author: Cezary Sliwa Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 10:43:37 +0200 "cpio --sparse" corrupts data. A fix attached. C.S. Attachment: cpio-2.4.2-sparse.diff Description: Text document /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-08/msg00000.html (3,989 bytes) 43. (no subject) (score: 2) Author: brian@debian.org (Brian Mays) Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 16:35:13 -0400 When hard-linked files (along with many other files) are archived to a cpio ustar format archive, the files are _not_ all archived as hard links to each other in the archive. When the same set of fil /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-07/msg00080.html (5,666 bytes) 44. gnu cpio and files over 2G (score: 37) Author: J.S.Peatfield@damtp.cam.ac.uk Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 06:28:18 +0100 As an increasing number of opertaing systems now support files over 2G I took a look at the cpio (2.4.2) source to see how hard it would be to make it cope, and was slightly shocked at the number of /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-05/msg00010.html (4,802 bytes) 45. cpio suggestion + patch (score: 38) Author: Taylor Gautier Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 09:40:05 -0700 I have a suggestion for cpio. The suggestion is to make it copy files into a temporary name and then rename the file as the last operation. Since UNIX filesystems are supposed to gaurantee atomicity /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-04/msg00169.html (10,674 bytes) 46. [cpio 2.4.2] rmt build fails (score: 8) Author: Gert Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 21:28:52 +0200 (CEST) Hi, The cpio 2.4.2 rmt tool fails to build on my system. I run the following software: - Linux 2.4.2 - GCC 2.95.2 - GNU Make 3.79.1 - GNU ld 2.10 (with BFD 2.10) - glibc 2.1.3 The build fails like th /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-03/msg00262.html (5,498 bytes) 47. cpio --sparse (score: 34) Author: Cezary Sliwa Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 10:43:34 +0200 (CEST) the '--sparse' option of gnu cpio causes data corruption (blocks of zeros are lost or appended to other files). C.S. /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-03/msg00235.html (3,671 bytes) 48. cpio 2.4.2: lose the useless "truncating inode number" message already (score: 36) Author: Jamie Zawinski Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 13:46:38 -0800 As far as I understand it, no purpose is served by having cpio print "cpio: : truncating inode number" to stderr for *every single file* it places in an archive. Yes, I could just redirect stde /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-03/msg00227.html (4,740 bytes) 49. Re: bug with gnu cpio 2.4.2 (score: 38) Author: Hans-Bernhard Broeker Date: 6 Mar 2001 15:19:34 GMT This would happen if cpio want to do any user interaction (ask for the next tape cartridge, because the current one is full, e.g.). Cron jobs don't have access to a terminal (/dev/tty), so this will /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-03/msg00029.html (5,062 bytes) 50. bug with gnu cpio 2.4.2 (score: 37) Author: dominique.bieber@sagem.com Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 12:27:14 +0100 Hi, I have a problem using cpio with a Red Hat 6.2 whith a 2.2.14-5.0smp kernel. The backup device is a HP DAT DDS4 20/40 with the right cartridge. The cpio is launched by the cron. During the backup /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-03/msg00024.html (4,315 bytes) 52. [PATCH] cpio 2.4.2 does not compile with libc 2.2, gcc 2.95 (score: 38) Author: "John Fremlin" Date: 11 Feb 2001 22:19:09 +0000 In fact it violates the GNU coding standards by declaring stuff when it shouldn't. Tsk, tsk. Attachment: cpio-2.4.2-build.patch Description: Text Data -- http://www.penguinpowered.com/~vii /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-02/msg00065.html (4,169 bytes) 53. cpio-2.4.2: data corruption bug (score: 35) Author: Todd Kelley Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 17:00:06 -0500 Hello, Recently at OEone we fixed a bug in GNU cpio-2.4.2: When a file over about 0.5 megabyes grows while it is being archived, it and all files following it in the archive are corrupted. The crc do /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-02/msg00062.html (4,297 bytes) 54. cpio 2.4.2 unconditionally takes the tape drive offline (score: 39) Author: Scott Larson Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 13:15:52 -0800 We have been copying multiple volumes to a single tape with the System 5 version of cpio. The gnu version of cpio doesn't support this since it takes the tape offline (i.e. ejects the tape) after rea /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-01/msg00087.html (4,264 bytes) 55. cpio -t can see international filenames, find -ls also suffers (score: 35) Author: "Dan Jacobson" Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 07:38:53 +0800 GNU cpio version 2.4.2 with cpio -t I can see Chinese [big5] filenames. with -tv, they become \267\247 etc Just like what happens with find . -print vs. find . -ls -- http://www.geocities.com/jidanni /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2000-12/msg00143.html (4,084 bytes) 56. cpio-2.4.2 compilation problems (score: 34) Author: Thomas =?iso-8859-1?q?K=F6ller?= Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 02:50:24 +0100 I encountered several problems building cpio-2.4.2. I am running linux-2.2.17, glibc-2.1.3 and gcc 2.95.2. The errors I received were mostly due to the source files re-declaring things unconditionall /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2000-12/msg00109.html (5,782 bytes) 58. cpio-2.4.2 & glibc-2.* (score: 46) Author: Florian Wunderlich Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 16:25:00 +0100 I still do not see a new version of cpio or at least extra patches that fix it so it works with the glibc. Thus, here is a simple patch to make it compile with glibc: diff -u cpio-2.4.2-old/rmt.c cpi /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2000-12/msg00098.html (4,846 bytes) 60. cpio-2.4.2 signed-unsigned int disagreement with malloc (score: 39) Author: Antonomasia Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 07:05:01 GMT copyin.c: 534 link_name = (char *) xmalloc ((unsigned int) file_hdr.c_filesize + 1); 535 link_name[file_hdr.c_filesize] = '\0'; file_hdr.c_filesize can be a large negative number as seen here then th /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2000-11/msg00171.html (4,718 bytes) 61. gnu CPIO (score: 38) Author: Clark Cooper Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 13:21:07 -0500 (EST) The gnu version of CPIO appears to send all output to stderr. Take for instance a need to have the list of files copied and any errors separated as should be produced by the following: find . -print /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2000-11/msg00089.html (3,903 bytes) 62. Desire enhancement to GNU cpio 2.4.2 (score: 35) Author: Dave Dykstra Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 10:24:56 -0600 I have a new GNU/Linux system with large disks on which I need to generate cpio files for many different systems including older ones that don't support the "newc" format, only the "odc" format. The /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2000-11/msg00087.html (5,115 bytes) 65. cpio pass-through can corrupt files (score: 36) Author: "Parrott, Jeff" Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 13:32:57 -0400 I have seen corrupted files as a result of using the pass-through option in cpio. The corruption occurs when active/in-use (and growing) files are being copied. The problem is that the file size has /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2000-10/msg00087.html (4,974 bytes) 66. [Bug-gnu-utils] A small problem with cpio (score: 36) Author: Chris Hall Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 11:05:56 +0100 Hi, I'm running cpio 2.4.2 on AIX 4.3.3 and have a problem with very large files, I get this output when running the command: $ ls -l total 2867988 drwxrwxrwx 2 root sys 512 Sep 14 17:05 chris/ -rw-r /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2000-09/msg00004.html (4,481 bytes)