Re: [Bug-tar] Add option to include the contents of FIFO:s

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Alexander T <address@hidden> ha escrit:

> Considering
> that the problem with the header appearing first would mostly apply to
> sequential output, would it be possible to add support for this when
> tar is writing the output file itself?

Tar's output is sequential by nature, since it is oriented on tape
drives. Theoretically, it could be done if the output medium
supports seek operation, by seeking back to the header and filling
the size field after writing the actual file contents.

> Or maybe there is some other
> chunking option which would limit the buffer size?

GNU tar has two options that control the blocking: --blocking-factor and
--record-size, but neither of them would help in this case.

Regards,
Sergey