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Re:The cpio trailer problem (2018) by josephcsible on Sunday July 19, 2020 @12:29PM (#23890423)
> the question is why nobody fixed this yet

Because fixing it would be a breaking change to the archive format.

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Re:The cpio trailer problem (2018) by raverbashing on Monday July 20, 2020 @01:36AM (#23894936)
You don't have to change the archive format in a breaking way, you just need to extend it

Backwards compatibility is more important with archives than with the util itself

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