From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Description of problem: If you create a cpio archive which has hard links in it, pax incorrectly restores the hard links. Instead of getting the contents of the file, the result is two links to an empty file. It does appear to matter which format of cpio archive is used. This happens if - H crc or -H newc is used. If -H odc is used, pax appears to work correctly. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): pax 1.5-4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. create a non-empty file 2. make a hardlink to it 3. create a cpio archive with the two hardlinks in it. for example: find . -print | cpio -o -H crc > outfile 4. use pax to load the archive pax -r -p e -v -f ./outfile 5. see that the two hardlinks are restored, but are zero length Actual Results: the two hardlinks are restored, but are zero length Expected Results: they should have had the original contents Additional info:
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Red Hat Linux is no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc. If you are still running Red Hat Linux, you are strongly advised to upgrade to a current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable. Some information on which option may be right for you is available at http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/. Closing as CANTFIX.