Current cpio broken, mangled initrd

[Paul Iadonisi]

On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 09:13 -0500, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> Paul Iadonisi wrote:

[snip]

> >
> >  Check the latest comment in the bug.  I think I tracked the problem
> >down.  Frankly, it looks like half finished code.
> >  
> >
> 
> cpio half finished code? hehe, not likely.
> 
> Looks more like autocrap churn, delete a configure.ac test, lose a #define,
> and sh*t happens. zlib support into file(1) one of many bugs caused by
> similar churn.

  Sorry.  Didn't mean to imply that the entirety of cpio was half
finished.  Just whatever change introduced that '#if !HAVE_LSTAT ...'
block was half done.  Basically, yeah, what you said.  ;-)

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