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From: byron@archone.tamu.edu (Byron Rakitzis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Bash, tar, and broken pipe
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Date: 20 May 91 03:40:36 GMT
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Heinz (heinz@cc.univie.ac.at) sent me some personal mail which I could
not reply to (is there another address I could use to get mail to you,
Heinz?). However, he raised an interesting point:

Given a pipeline

	foo | tar ft -

it seems clear that tar must read to EOF in order to determine whether
the tar file that foo writes has come to an end or not. Therefore a
normal instance of

	foo | tar ft -

should not cause a pipe to break, since tar will always terminate after
foo. I have no clue why tar is exiting prematurely. If anyone can shed
light on the matter, I think Heinz and I would appreciate it. (Servus,
Heinz!)


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Byron Rakitzis
byron@archone.tamu.edu