Re: [Bug-tar] [patch v3] Bug / question in tar

[Joerg Schilling]

Pavel Raiskup <address@hidden> wrote:

> Thanks a lot for processing this.  This is kind of philosophical thread
> and I recall one thing:  should we take the detection of /dev/null output
> as an OK exception?

I believe that this gtar behavoir is a bug. It does not do what people expect 
and on platforms that do not have /dev/zero, there is no way to tell gtar to do 
what people expect.

Star has a special option -onull for the case that the user does not like the 
files to be read.



Jörg

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