Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 8 Jul 2001 03:26:21 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: [Acpi] Re: ACPI fundamental locking problems |
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On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Daniel Phillips wrote: > > > Reading a tarball is the distillation of what you describe into > > > efficient form :) > > > > /me downloads tar file definition > > > > Um, gnu tar or posix tar? or some new, improved tar? > > I suggest cpio, which is more compact and in some ways more standard. > (tar has a silly pad-to-multiple-of-512-byte per file rule, which is > inappropriate for this). GNU cpio creates cpio format just fine.
GNU cpio is a race-ridden unmaintained pile of junk. Look at the size of, say it, Debian patch to upstream source. Then try to read the patched code. Quite a few of us simply don't have that FPOS on their boxen.
Using cpio archive layout is OK, but _please_, don't make it dependent on GNU cpio.
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