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| From: | Joerg Schilling |
| Subject: | Re: [Bug-tar] The empty tar file |
| Date: | Fri, 18 Oct 2013 12:41:43 +0200 |
| User-agent: | nail 11.22 3/20/05 |
Charles Swiger <address@hidden> wrote:
> No; it's not considered an error to create a tar file which archived zero
> files.
In addition: modern tar implementations like star (that implement buffering)
would
have problems to delay opening the archive until the first "usable" file was
found.
Jörg
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