[Bug-cpio] bug in cpio-2.6

[Mike Castle]

It appears that cpio-2.6 is acting like -L is passed when using in pass
through mode.

I think this is a VERY serious bug, as people are going to be suddenly
surprised when they copy over a multi gigabyte file rather than a symlink.
:-/

Here is an example:


address@hidden:37pm]~(543) ls -l u v
u:
total 4
-rw-------  1 nexus users 29 Jan  7 22:27 a
lrwxrwxrwx  1 nexus users  1 Jan  7 22:28 b -> a

v:
total 0
address@hidden:39pm]~(544) find u -depth | /usr/src/cpio/cpio-2.5-build/cpio 
-pdmv v
v/u/a
v/u/b
v/u
1 block
address@hidden:39pm]~(545) ls -l v/u
total 4
-rw-------  1 nexus users 29 Jan  7 22:27 a
lrwxrwxrwx  1 nexus users  1 Jan  7 22:39 b -> a
address@hidden:39pm]~(546) rm -rf v/u                                           
address@hidden:39pm]~(547) find u -depth | /usr/src/cpio/cpio-2.6-build/cpio 
-pdmv v
address@hidden:39pm]~(549) find u -depth | 
/usr/src/cpio/cpio-2.6-build/src/cpio -pdmv v
v/u/a
v/u/b
v/u
1 block
address@hidden:40pm]~(550) ls -l v/u
total 8
-rw-------  1 nexus users 29 Jan  7 22:27 a
-rw-------  1 nexus users 29 Jan  7 22:27 b
address@hidden:40pm]~(551)

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