Re: [Bug-tar] Detecting compressed archives from stdin

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> ha escrit:

> It is technically possible to
> create a filter thread or process, whose job it is to create a new output
> pipe, replay the first few bytes that tar already read in determining that
> stdin was compressed, then read the remainder of the original input pipe
> and play it out to the child process, but no one has submitted the code to
> do that yet.

The related code is in my local tree for some time. I thought it was of
rather low priority so I did not hurry to finish it. I'll try to polish
it up and commit this week.

Regards,
Sergey