[osol-discuss] How to replace libc on a live system?

[Casper.Dik at Sun.COM]

>I personally dislike that the feature exists completely undocumented
>and that it is only present in the outdated cpio archiver. This is why
>I documented it in star and why I make it command line selectable.
>As star supports the CLI of many archivers and as star supports all
>UNIX archive formats, it does not artificially limit the usability.

I'd say: why do you care?  Since it's undocumented, you can't build on 
top of it (except when you are in ON).  Or do you need the links preserved?


Casper