cvs commit: src/usr.bin/cpio Makefile bsdcpio.1 cmdline.c config_freebsd.h cpio.c cpio.h cpio_platform.h err.c matching.c matching.h pathmatch.c pathmatch.h src/usr.bin/cpio/test Makefile main.c test.h test_0.c test_basic.c test_format_newc.c ...

[Colin Percival]

Roman Divacky wrote:
>>   Initial commit of bsdcpio 0.9.11b.
> 
> great! thnx a lot.
> 
> can you please summarize what are the advantages/differences from gnu-cpio?

The BSD license is one advantage; but the fact that this 1766 lines of C code
compared to gnu-cpio's 6994 lines of C code is in my opinion far more important
(the difference being largely because bsdcpio uses libarchive, of course).

Other benefits include bsdcpio being cleaner code (I had to look at the cpio
code once for a security advisory... I nearly went blind), being newer code
(at least from the perspective of security, pre-2000 code is generally less
trustworthy -- people were simply less aware of security in the past), and
having an active FreeBSD maintainer.

I'm looking forward to when we can remove both GNU cpio and our current pax
implementation from the tree, and have libarchive be the One True Archiver
which is exposed to userland via three different front-ends.

Colin Percival