cpio-2.4.2: data corruption bug

[Todd Kelley]

Hello,

Recently at OEone we fixed a bug in GNU cpio-2.4.2:
 When a file over about 0.5 megabyes grows while it is being archived, it and all files following it in the archive are corrupted.  The crc doesn't necessarily detect the corruption (another bug, the crc is not really a crc!).

Here is our fix for the GNU cpio-2.4.2 data corruption bug:

 bash$ diff old_util.c util.c
488a489,491
>   /* discard any growth of previous file that occurred during its processing */
>   input_size = 0;
>
 

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Todd Kelley, System Architect, OEone Corporation
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