Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Jan 2002 17:30:29 +1100 | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] klibc requirements |
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On 8 Jan 2002 23:26:46 -0800 "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote: > *** Handling of hard links > > When a nondirectory with c_nlink > 1 is seen, the (c_maj,c_min,c_ino) > tuple is looked up in a tuple buffer. If not found, it is entered in > the tuple buffer and the entry is created as usual; if found, a hard > link rather than a second copy of the file is created. It is not
HPA, gnu cpio (v 2.4.2) actually puts the contents in the *last* entry, for hardlinks in "newc" format. This probably means you should specify that if it's a found tuple, and c_filesize is non-zero, overwrite the contents of the file.
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