Add sparse file support to cpio [PSARC/2008/727 Self Review]

[John Plocher]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Don Cragun <don.cragun at sun.com> wrote:
> But this uses ustar/pax format archives.  That won't satisfy the
> customer for that filed the escalation to get this fix.  They insist on
> a fix using cpio format archives.


With this fix, these archives will no longer be "cpio format
archives", but instead
they will be "Sun Proprietary CPIO format archives".

That is, the customer will not be able to extract "holey" files as holey files
on non-Sun systems, rendering this a proprietary solution.

Is there a plan to add this support to non-Sun archivers?

  -John