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

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Pavel Raiskup wrote:
> 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).

I think this may be a good idea. It is a common feature among the 
compressors used by tar:

  $ lzip -t
  lzip: I won't read compressed data from a terminal.
  Try 'lzip --help' for more information.


Best regards,
Antonio.