[BusyBox] Anybody working on cpio write support?

[Glenn McGrath]

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 03:33:20 -0500
Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:

> I'm fiddling with the 2.6 kernel and trying to get initramfs working,
> and this requires making a -newc style cpio archive.  There's code in
> the kernel to do this, but it's got a hard-wired file list.  The
> busybox cpio command only extracts, it doesn't create.
> 
> I'm not sure if the logical thing to do is to fix up the busybox code
> or write a couple of for(readdir()) {} loops for the kernel code...
> 
> Now what I'm wondering is if there's some common directory traversal
> code between "find" and "tar" that could be reused for cpio.  (And ar,
> whenever it sprouts an option for the ability to write...)

At various times ive contemplated creating some common archive creation
code, but ive never actually done anything.



Glenn