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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | Re: [Bug-tar] [patch v3] Bug / question in tar |
| Date: | Sat, 29 Mar 2014 13:00:59 -0700 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 |
Tim Kientzle wrote:
As long as it still reads the input files.
There is no need to read input files when the input data is not used for anything. People who want to fool tar into actually reading the files can pipe its output to another program that discards it.
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