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CFS symbolic link bug?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Stampfli)
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From: res@colnet.cmhnet.org (Rob Stampfli)
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Subject: CFS symbolic link bug?
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I came across the following "bug" recently while working in a CFS encrypted
directory:
$ ln -s 7777777 a
$ ln -s 4444 b
$ ls a b | cpio -ovac >cpio.out
$ cpio -ivct <cpio.out
120777 res 16 Mar 23 09:11:20 1999 a -> 7777777
120777 res 16 Mar 23 09:11:33 1999 b -> 4444777
$
(And, of course, if you restore from the cpio archive, the second symbolic
link is created consistently, as shown above, but incorrectly.)
This is on a SunOS 4.1.4 system using the standard cpio. Neither tar
nor paxcpio exhibit these symptoms. Nor does cpio, for that matter,
except from a CFS encrypted directory. It is unclear to me whether this
is a CFS problem, or a latent bug in cpio.
Anyone have a clue as to the cause? I looked at the CFS code briefly and
did not see anything obvious in the symlink area (readlink() calls).
Anyone else's Unix exhibit this anomaly?
Rob
