I've just updated the version of cpio to 2.9-1. This is an official upstream release. The Cygwin version has been built from the vanilla sources. cpio passes all (four) tests in the testsuite.
What's new in 2.9 and the skipped 2.8 release? Version 2.9 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2007-06-28 * Licensed under the GPLv3. * Bugfixes: ** Honor umask when creating intermediate directories, not specified in the archive (debian bug #430053) ^L Version 2.8 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2007-06-08 * Option --owner can be used in copy-out mode, allowing to uniformly override ownership of the files being added to the archive. * Bugfixes: ** Symlinks were handled incorrectly in copy-out mode. ** Fix handling of large files. ** Fix setting the file permissions in copy-out mode. ** Fix CAN-2005-1111 To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
