The following reply was made to PR bin/36308; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: dieter roelants <dieter.NetBSD@pandora.be>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/36308: cpio not replacing on old file
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:49:06 +0200

 Hi,
 
 I believe this to be a correct fix:
 
 Index: options.c
 ===================================================================
 RCS file: /cvsroot/src/bin/pax/options.c,v
 retrieving revision 1.100
 diff -p -u -r1.100 options.c
 --- options.c   23 Apr 2007 18:40:22 -0000      1.100
 +++ options.c   22 Oct 2007 20:57:41 -0000
 @@ -1472,7 +1472,7 @@ cpio_options(int argc, char **argv)
         char *str;
  
         uflag = 1;
 -       kflag = 1;
 +       kflag = 0;
         pids = 1;
         pmode = 1;
         pmtime = 0;
 
 
 With this patch applied to /usr/src/bin/pax/cpio:
 
 simult:p7:/tmp/s$ uptime > K
 simult:p7:/tmp/s$ date > J
 simult:p7:/tmp/s$ ls -l ?  
 -rw-r--r--  1 dieter  wheel  30 Oct 22 23:22 J
 -rw-r--r--  1 dieter  wheel  59 Oct 22 23:05 K
 simult:p7:/tmp/s$ ls | cpio -p -dmv ../d
 ../d/J
 ../d/K
 simult:p7:/tmp/s$ date >> J              
 simult:p7:/tmp/s$ ls | cpio -p -dmv ../d 
 ../d/J
 simult:p7:/tmp/s$ ls -l ? ../d/?
 -rw-r--r--  1 dieter  wheel  30 Oct 22 23:05 ../d/J
 -rw-r--r--  1 dieter  wheel  59 Oct 22 23:05 ../d/K
 -rw-r--r--  1 dieter  wheel  60 Oct 22 23:05 J
 -rw-r--r--  1 dieter  wheel  59 Oct 22 23:05 K
 simult:p7:/tmp/s$ ls | /usr/src/bin/pax/cpio -p -dmv ../d
 ../d/J
 simult:p7:/tmp/s$ ls -l ? ../d/?                          
 -rw-r--r--  1 dieter  wheel  60 Oct 22 23:05 ../d/J
 -rw-r--r--  1 dieter  wheel  59 Oct 22 23:05 ../d/K
 -rw-r--r--  1 dieter  wheel  60 Oct 22 23:05 J
 -rw-r--r--  1 dieter  wheel  59 Oct 22 23:05 K
 
 Kind regards
 dieter