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


From: Pavel Raiskup
Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] Bug / question in tar
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 00:13:53 +0100
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On Wednesday, March 12, 2014 16:08:58 Paul Eggert wrote:
> Pavel Raiskup wrote:
> > We should probably detect terminal "archive" input/output and fail
> > appropriately?
> 
> tar always does something like that.  Sorry, I don't understand the 
> failure scenario here.

We could detect that archive contents are coming from terminal input and
fail immediately (IIRC tar waits indefinitely ATM until it's input is cut
by ctrl+d or it is killed).




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