This is a bug report for cpio-2.7.
On CentOS 4.5, readlink does not null-terminate its return string, so
the names of symlinks are sometimes archived with trailing junk. This
simple patch seems to fix it.
*** ./src/copyout.c~ Wed Sep 27 01:19:44 2006
--- ./src/copyout.c Sun Jun 10 22:56:23 2007
***************
*** 806,811 ****
--- 806,812 ----
free (link_name);
continue;
}
+ link_name[link_size] = '\0';
cpio_safer_name_suffix (link_name, false,
!no_abs_paths_flag, true);
link_size = strlen (link_name);
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