On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Ersek, Laszlo wrote:
Dear GNU tar Maintainer,
if you can find the time, please read the blog post [0] and the related (not
too long) reddit thread [1]. The question is:
Does GNU tar (and if so, under what circumstances) close its input pipe
before seeing EOF on it?
"davidben" has investigated the tar source and posted a followup.
http://davidben.scripts.mit.edu/blog/2010/02/28/tar-filled-pipes
Perhaps it should be examined whether this section of the tar
documentation:
http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/gzip.html#IDX448
(ie. the two requirements on --use filters) should be extended with a
third requirement to handle a broken pipe gracefully.
(I'm not saying the docs should be extended, nor that it should not be
extended -- I'm merely suggesting this question be considered at all.)
Thanks,
lacos
