[csw-maintainers] New pax replacement in place

Maciej Bliziński maciej at opencsw.org
Mon Apr 18 19:27:29 CEST 2011


2011/4/18 Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org>:
> I just replaced in r14323 the old "pax" by a new "pcopy" which hopefully
> has less bugs. It is a tiny rewrite by me in Perl. It should support
> all used features we used from "pax".

I remember one of the bugs was losing the original file permissions
under the influence of umask.  I had to add post-merge steps to revert
permission bits to what I wanted.  Have you tested pcopy under this
scenario?

Maciej


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