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Re: bug in rsnapshot 1.2.1 due to change in /bin/cp 5.93


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: bug in rsnapshot 1.2.1 due to change in /bin/cp 5.93
Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2006 00:23:26 -0700
User-agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux)

David Cantrell <address@hidden> writes:

> If I get the time, I'll make it so you can use cpio instead, which has
> similar functionality but is more portable.

cpio is portable?  That's news to me.  I've been staying away from
cpio ever since it massively screwed up one of my directory
hierarchies due to its truncation of inode numbers to 16 bits.  (This
was on SunOS.)




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