28 Jun
2024
28 Jun
'24
1:08 a.m.
On 2024-06-26 23:29, ron minnich wrote (in part):
[...]
what's in it?
ronsexcllentmbp:t rminnich$ cpio -ivt < ../t.cpio
-rw-r--r-- 1 rminnich wheel 0 Jun 26 20:21 a
-rw-r--r-- 2 rminnich wheel 0 Jun 26 20:21 b
-rw-r--r-- 2 rminnich wheel 0 Jun 26 20:21 c link to b
"c link to b"? wtf? Who thought that was a good idea? because ...
ronsexcllentmbp:t rminnich$ touch 'c link to b'
[...]
Somebody needs to get the osx folks a unix manual set :-)
Interestingly, the man page (macos 11.3.1) for cpio contains the following:
STANDARDS
There is no current POSIX standard for the cpio command; it
appeared in ISO/IEC 9945-1:1996
(``POSIX.1'') but was dropped from IEEE Std 1003.1-2001
(``POSIX.1'').
The cpio, ustar, and pax interchange file formats are defined by
IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1'')
for the pax command.
S.