Re: [Bug-tar] [patch v2] Archive contents should not go to/from terminal (was: Bug / question in tar)

[Pavel Raiskup]

On Thursday, March 13, 2014 09:21:44 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 meant something like the patch attached, could you please consider?

[patch v2] attached as we should cover also e.g. compressed archives

> I tried to write testcase for this and I failed to find proper 'script'
> alternative tool among coreutils, is there some?  I could rewrite it then.
> 
> Pavel

0001-tar-fail-if-archive-comes-directly-to-from-terminal.patch
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