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	CPIO -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		CPIO is both the name of a binary utility, and a form of digital archive.
		A CPIO archive is essentially a stream of files and directories in a single archive.
		The CPIO archive is similar in function to that of a (Click link for more info and facts about tar archive) tar archive, and was designed to store backups onto a tape device in a contiguous manner.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/cp/cpio3.htm (139 words)

	LinuxQuestions.org Man Pages Online
		cpio copies files into or out of a cpio or tar archive, which is a file that contains other files plus information about them, such as their file name, owner, timestamps, and access permissions.
		When extracting from archives, cpio automatically recognizes which kind of archive it is reading and can read archives created on machines with a different byte-order.
		(cpio archives are always extracted using the numeric UID and GID.) --no-absolute-filenames In copy-in mode, create all files relative to the current direc- tory, even if they have an absolute file name in the archive.
	man.linuxquestions.org /index.php?query=cpio§ion=0&type=2 (1544 words)

	cpio \| Linux Journal
		Since cpio is designed to accept a list of files such as the output of ls or find, it is more suited for comprehensive backup systems than tools like conventional tar; the set of files processed can be easily controlled programmatically.
		The default cpio format uses the space on tape much more efficiently than the conventional tar format, and it can also skip damaged sections of archives and continue during restore operations, instead of quitting completely.
		The default action for cpio, when operating in copy-in (extract) or pass-through mode, is to prompt a user for confirmation before writing over existing files, if the existing file is newer.
	www.linuxjournal.com /article.php?sid=1213 (2081 words)

	cpio(1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Notice that if cpio -i tries to create a file that already exists and the existing file is the same age or younger (newer), cpio will output a warning message and not replace the file.
		cpio will find the next good header, which may be one for a smaller archive, and terminate when the smaller archive's trailer is encountered.
		With this flag, cpio will look for extended attributes on the files to be placed in the archive and add them, as regular files, to the archive.
	www.cs.duke.edu /cgi-bin/man.cgi?section=1&topic=cpio (2774 words)

	cpio:
		GNU cpio is a tool for creating and extracting archives, or copying files from one place to another.
		This is the first edition of the GNU cpio documentation and is consistant with GNU cpio 2.5.
		GNU cpio copies files into or out of a cpio or tar archive, The archive can be another file on the disk, a magnetic tape, or a pipe.
	www.gnu.org /software/cpio/manual/html_mono/cpio.html (1989 words)

	Info: (cpio) Tutorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		When creating an archive, cpio takes the list of files to be processed from the standard input, and then sends the archive to the standard output, or to the device defined by the `-F' option.
		cpio -ov > directory.cpio The `-o' option creates the archive, and the `-v' option prints the names of the files archived as they are added.
		Another is `-p', which tells cpio to pass the files it finds to the directory `new-dir'.
	hoth.stsci.edu /cgi-bin/info2html?(cpio)Tutorial (582 words)

	cpiotool - wrapper for cpio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		GNU cpio only recognizes rsh, so the replacement should be called 'rsh' if GNU cpio is used.
		when using native cpio headers, cpiotool subtracts a full block from the maxsize value for end-of-archive padding, 124 bytes for the final end-of-archive trailer, 110 bytes per file plus the length of the filename for each header, and 3 bytes per file to allow for each trailer.
		this allows the cpio binary to create a single archive that spans multiple tapes, which can be unreliable.
	www.nickb.org /utils/cpiotool.htm (1537 words)

	cpio.1
		Cpio will not create directories, preserve modification times or overwrite more recently modified target files unless the appropriate -d, -m or -u options are specified.
		Cpio will overwrite existing target files that were modified more recently than the file in the archive when this option is given.
		The implementation of cpio is limited to expanded numerical fields and long file names; in particular, there is no support for sparse files or incremental backups.
	heirloom.sourceforge.net /man/cpio.1.html (2345 words)

	CPIO (1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		cpio -i (copy in) extracts files from the standard input, which is assumed to be the product of a previous cpio -o.
		Note: If cpio -i tries to create a file that already exists and the existing file is the same age or newer, cpio will output a warning message and not replace the file.
		cpio -i uses the output file of cpio -o (directed through a pipe with cat in the example below), extracts those files that match the patterns (memo/a1, memo/b**), creates directories below the current directory as needed (-d option), and places the files in the appropriate directories.
	www.mds.mdh.se /~dat95aem/cgi-bin/man2html.cgi?cpio.1 (2276 words)

	UNIX man pages : cpio () (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Note that if cpio -i tries to create a file that already exists and the existing file is the same age or younger (newer), cpio will output a warning message and not replace the file.
		Pass Mode cpio -p (pass) reads the standard input to obtain a list of path names of files that are conditionally created and copied into the destination directory tree based on the options described below.
		cpio will find the next good header, which may be one for a smaller archive, and terminate when the smaller archive's trailer is encountered.) Used only with the -i option.
	www.cs.umbc.edu /cgi-bin/man-cgi?cpio (2469 words)

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	partnernetwork.cognos.com /profiles/709262.html (211 words)

	CPIO How-To
		A benefit there is that you can use cpio to archive files from one host but write the archive file to, say, the tape drive on another host.
		I've found this useful in cases where I needed to backup large amounts of data to a tape drive, but the tape drive was on a server that didn't have enough disk space to hold a temporary copy of the entire archive, so I had to go directly to tape.
		The main advantage cpio has over tar is that it's easier to archive only some of the files in a directory.
	cybertiggyr.com /gene/cpio-howto (1291 words)

	Linux CPIO Command (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Also when creating a tar or cpio backup, never, never, never use an "absolute" path -- you have been warned; also linux tar warns you of this too.
		When creating a tar or cpio you should change the the appropriate directory and cpio from there.
		Also when creating a tar or cpio it is general good practice to tar up a directory (appropriately named) which contains your files, rather than just the files.
	www.cpqlinux.com /cpio.html (134 words)

	pax
		The octet-oriented cpio archive format shall be a series of entries, each comprising a header that describes the file, the name of the file, and then the contents of the file.
		The cpio utility did not treat directories differently from other files, and to select a directory and its contents required that each file in the hierarchy be explicitly specified.
		The cpio format, while possessing a more flexible file naming methodology, could not be extended without breaking some theoretical implementation or using a dummy filename that could be a legitimate filename.
	www.opengroup.org /onlinepubs/007904975/utilities/pax.html (15811 words)

	cpio(1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The cpio command is a filter designed to let you copy files to or from an archive.
		The cpio command differs from the ar command in that cpio lets you archive any kind of file, while ar is limited to program object files.
		Use this option to copy in cpio archives generated by pre-V4.2 cpio(1).
	www2.iicm.edu /0x811bc833_0x00531ae1 (731 words)

	cpio(1)
		It reads a list of filenames, one per line, on the standard input, and writes the ar- chive onto the standard output.
		A typical way to generate the list of filenames is with the find command; you should give find the -d option to minimize problems with permissions on directories that are unwritable or not searchable.
		In copy-in mode, cpio copies files out of an archive or lists the ar- chive contents.
	www.omc.net /cgi-bin/man.cgi?section=1&topic=cpio (1510 words)

	SCO UNIX basics about tar, cpio, backup/restore and other backup methods.
		Cpio - copy in/copy out ======================= Cpio is dependable for both file system and users' data backups.
		Cpio's syntax is more involved than tar or backup, but allows great flexibility in its application.
		Cpio can be used to "copy out", "copy in", or "copy pass".
	www.sco.com /cgi-bin/ssl_reference?107195 (4949 words)

	Torture-testing Backup and Archive Programs: Things You Ought to Know But Probably Would Rather Not Appendix A: Tables ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The last option has obvious flaws (not only is it painfully slow, but it requires a writable file and at least one block's worth of free space on the file system), and as far as I know has never been implemented.
		In tar's case the 100-character restriction is indeed a firm upper limit because of the format; in cpio's it is not, and varies by implementation.
		Some permission difficulties are well-known - for instance, the cpio manual page recommends running find depth-first so that files will appear on the tape before their containing directories, in order to avoid difficulties with directory permissions.
	berdmann.dyndns.org /zwicky/testdump.doc.html (4517 words)

	using compress with cpio
		The device is a hard drive and the issue is that the file will outgrow disk space with this command: ls dat cpio* -ocvB >/dev/hda then you don't have room left to compress it...
		cpio needs to see the list of file names, you are compressing the list of file names before it gets to cpio.
		The whole idea was to compress the files before sending them to cpio becua se I did not have disk space to run the compress after the fact.
	www.codecomments.com /message243709.html (1075 words)

	[ACL-Devel] archiving acls: tar and cpio
		BTW, I like the pax command line interface -- it is simpler than of the tar and cpio, and have very powerful features.
		I looked to implementation of solaris's tar and cpio utilities -- there is a possibility to use their format also in just "plain" tar/cpio, and be compatible at least with one existed system.
		This way, for "older" archivers that can try to extract this "pair" of files, original file will be extracted twice, first time with contents of ACLs and second with actual data.
	acl.bestbits.at /pipermail/acl-devel/2000-October/000389.html (798 words)

	Manpage of CPIO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The binary format is obsolete because it encodes information about the files in a way that is not portable between different machine architectures.
		The crc format is like the new ASCII format, but also contains a checksum for each file which cpio calculates when creating an archive and verifies when the file is extracted from the archive.
		In copy-out and copy-pass modes, read a list of filenames terminated by a null character instead of a newline, so that files whose names contain newlines can be archived.
	athena.fit.qut.edu.au /cgi-bin/man/man2html?cpio (1592 words)

	ISS X-Force Database: cpio-o-archive-insecure-permissions(19167): GNU cpio -O archive option insecure permissions
		GNU cpio is a freely available program for copying files into or out of a cpio or tar archive for Linux platforms.
		GNU cpio creates files with mode 0666 (world readable and writable) permissions when the -O archive option is used.
		CVE-1999-1572: cpio on FreeBSD 2.1.0, and possibly other operating systems, uses a 0 umask when creating files using the -O (archive) option, which creates the files with mode 0666 and allows local users to read or overwrite those files.
	xforce.iss.net /xforce/xfdb/19167 (389 words)

	Cpio - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
		GNU cpio copies files into or out of a cpio or tar archive.
		GNU cpio can be found on http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/cpio/ or one of the mirrors.
		If you wish to send a bug report, a feature request, or simply to share your thoughts about GNU cpio, please write to .
	www.gnu.org /software/cpio/cpio.html (331 words)

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		is unspecified, the cpio binary will detect end of media and send a request to the controlling terminal.
		will estimate the total size of all cpio headers and keep a running total of the number of bytes written to the device.
		, IO to the cpio binary is closed and a request for media is printed to standard out.
	www.cpan.org /authors/id/N/NI/NICKB/cpiotool-0.65 (2131 words)

	LWN: Red Hat alert RHSA-2005:080-01 (cpio)
		Summary: An updated cpio package that fixes a umask bug and supports large files (>2GB) is now available.
		Problem description: GNU cpio copies files into or out of a cpio or tar archive.
		It was discovered that cpio uses a 0 umask when creating files using the -O (archive) option.
	lwn.net /Articles/124250 (476 words)

	cpio
		A local attacker with write access to the target directory could exploit this to alter the permissions of arbitrary files the extracting user has write permissions for.
		CAN-2005-1229 Imran Ghory discovered that cpio does not sanitise the path of extracted files even if the --no-absolute-filenames option was specified.
		This can be exploited to install files in arbitrary locations where the extracting user has write permissions to.
	www.icetalk.com /cpio-N4635.html (251 words)

	CPIO bad magic error? - TechIMO Forums
		Does anyone know what a CPIO bad magic error could mean...
		I was loading an OS (linux, FC 3 to be exact) and it crashed due to "CPIO bad magic"...
		I would normally put this in the Linux section but i figured it could be a universal question so might as well do it here..
	www.techimo.com /forum/t152562.html (138 words)

	cpio
		Details follow: Recently it was discovered that cpio created world-writeable files when used in -o/--create mode with giving an output file (with -O).
		Now cpio respects the current umask setting of the user.
		Note: This vulnerability has already been fixed in a very old version of cpio, but the fix was never ported to the current version.
	www.securityfocus.com /advisories/8002 (183 words)

	tech-userlevel: Re: Removing GNU tar and GNU cpio from src? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Of course personally I wouldn't ever use anything like 'tar' or 'cpio' or 'pax', etc. to back up filesystems unless they really know a heck of a lot about what they're doing and what risks they may face by doing so.
		On NetBSD Amanda does just fine with proper 'dump' backups which of course face none of these silly issues because 'dump' is a proper backup program.
		NetBSD 'pax' (and its 'tar' and 'cpio' front ends) does not give up if a file changes -- it just reports an error (from buf_subs.c): else if (arcn->sb.st_mtime != sb.st_mtime) tty_warn(1, "File %s was modified during copy to archive", arcn->org_name); apparently just like your commercial software package also does.
	mail-index.netbsd.org /tech-userlevel/2003/01/26/0010.html (344 words)

	Cpio
		Cpio - Archiver that handles various types of cpio and tar archives
		Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2.
		Please consider donating to the FSF to help support this project.
	directory.fsf.org /all/cpio.html (268 words)

	Manpages (1:cpio) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		cpio − copy files to and from archives
		cpio {−p−−pass-through} [−0adlmuvLV] [−R [user][:.][group]] [−−null] [−−reset-access-time] [−−make-directories] [−−link] [−−quiet] [−−preserve-modification-time] [−−unconditional] [−−verbose] [−−dot] [−−dereference] [−−owner=[user][:.][group]] [−−no-preserve-owner] [−−sparse] [−−help] [−−version] destination-directory < name-list
		GNU cpio is fully documented in the texinfo documentation.
	cpio.1.man.c0d1ng.org (142 words)

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