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From: Thomas Chou <thomas@wytron.com.tw>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nios2-dev@sopc.et.ntust.edu.tw
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gen_init_cpio: remove leading `/' from file names
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:52:51 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CE49503.90607@wytron.com.tw> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikN_B-xq=Ge1gx-T5356K5ULd7u11y-mmS=BXMO@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Andrew and Michal,

On 10/06/2010 10:51 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 03:13, Thomas Chou wrote:
>> When we extracted the generated cpio archive using "cpio -id" command,
>> it complained,
>>
>> cpio: Removing leading `/' from member names
>> var/run
>> cpio: Removing leading `/' from member names
>> var/lib
>> cpio: Removing leading `/' from member names
>> var/lib/misc
>>
>> It is worse with the latest "cpio" or "pax", which tries to overwrite
>> the host file system with the leading '/'.
>
> seems to work as intended on Blackfin systems, and i cant see any
> reason to require the leading slash, so:
> Acked-by: Mike Frysinger<vapier@gentoo.org>
> -mike
>
>

Would you please review this patch? It is not clear as who should handle 
this with the MAINTAINERS.

Best regards,
Thomas

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-18  2:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-06  7:13 [PATCH] gen_init_cpio: remove leading `/' from file names Thomas Chou
2010-10-06 14:51 ` Mike Frysinger
2010-11-18  2:52   ` Thomas Chou [this message]
2010-12-02 13:30     ` Michal Marek

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