All,
It isn't clear if the
following is a bug, but it's a real question. Besides, this was the only
cpio-related mailing list that I could find.
I'm writing
an emacs application to handle cpio(1) archives. It is intended, in
part, to work like tar-mode and dired. However, with some archives (and
some entries within those archives, it looks to me like the
filesize field is too large by one byte. The archives still unpack properly, but manual checking of the
filesize field reflects that bug for those entries.
I
think I've reflected the GNU cpio(1) code correctly. I'd like to know
if I've stumbled across something known (and therefore also what that
is) or if it's a new bug.