Aihnss.1458
net.bugs.v7
utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!chico!harpo!mhtsa!ihnss!warren
Fri Jan 22 12:50:11 1982
cpio bug
Subject: cpio bug

(This really concerns the internal BTL version of unix, 4.0, but is
probably a more general problem).

I have had several files that had been put through cpio into an
archive and out again slightly altered.  Wherever there was a 0 byte
(null), it and the following character dissappeared.  I can't find
any reference in the documentation for cpio that it won't take files
with nulls in them, and I am reasonably sure that I have used cpio
archives for binary files before.  Is this a bug or a misfeature?
Has anyone else been similarly burned?

Warren Montgomery

ihnss!warren
csvax.warren at Berkeley

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