gnu cpio and files over 2G

[J . S . Peatfield]

As an increasing number of opertaing systems now support files over 2G
I took a look at the cpio (2.4.2) source to see how hard it would be to
make it cope, and was slightly shocked at the number of places where
sizes/offsets are stores in "int" or "long" variables (sometimes both
which must be fun if sizeof(long)!=sizeof(int)).

After spending an evening trying to route out all these uses (converting
most of them to off_t since that *ought* to be as big as the native os can
use), it occured to me that I'm probably not the only one who would like
this, so did a quick web search for patches to gnu cpio.

While I've not found a patch which does this, I have observed that a huge
number of patches are floating about -- which suggests that 2.4.2 may be
in need of some maintenance (I'm hoping that you still have a maintainer
since I don't really understand the code that well myself).  cpio 2.4.2
is sufficiently old that it stiff has the bugs address at prep.ai.mit.edu
(and I can't remember when that changed).

So, can you point me at the current cpio maintaner or failing that the last
known maintainer so I can try to submit some patches (once I've cleaned them
a bit) unless this is duplicating work already done...

 -- Jon Peatfield