Re: [Bug-tar] Tar short read

[Kevin Fox]

On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 11:35 -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On 2011-09-27, at 12:28 PM, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> > Kevin Fox <address@hidden> ha escrit:
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> >> What about SIGSTOP/SIGCONT? I don't believe they can avoid those.
> > 
> > SIGSTOP cannot be caught, blocked, or ignored.  It is used only by
> > debuggers.
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> Isn't it also used by Ctrl-Z in bash, and then "bg/fg" will send
> SIGCONT when it resumes.

It can use SIGTSTP/SIGCONT instead, but to the same effect I think.
There are a few other ones a terminal can issue too like SIGTTIN and
SIGTTOU.

> I'm on the side of Kevin, that it makes sense for tar to be robust
> in the face of a short read, despite what the spec might write.

Thanks. :)

Kevin

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> Cheers, Andreas
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