On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 05:16:05PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Also, tar should be an option instead of cpio for the archiver, > because tar is more widely used.
pretty much everyone will have cpio and it's format is much simpler/cleaner to deal with if we want vastly more complex early-userspace semantics i think we need to carefully decide what is needed and how to put as much of that logic into userspace rather than hacking this much more in the kernel for fear of breaking things in subtle ways - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/