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From: alan@drivax.UUCP (Alan Fargusson)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: HELP!! SVr2 grow filesystem panic!!
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Date: Wed, 11-Sep-85 16:20:02 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 11 16:20:02 1985
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> > 	cd fromdir; tar cf - . | ( cd todir; tar xf - )
> > 
> > The problem with this is that when tar tries to make a directory in todir
> > it execs mkdir(1), then waits for ALL of its children to complete. But in
> > the bourne shell the first tar is a child of the second tar, so it can hang
> > forever. All you have to do is fix tar(1) so it only waits for the process
> > that it forked.
> > 
> > System V, a standard to live down to. :-)
> 
> Far be it for me to do something for SV, but:
> 
> 	( cd fromdir; tar cf - . ) | ( cd todir; tar xf - )

I am not sure if you are trying to say that this solves the problem or
not, but if you think it does you are wrong. If you want a long explenation
of the problem then send me mail.
-- 

Alan Fargusson.

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