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Date:      Thu, 26 Apr 2001 13:24:47 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Cc:        obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, audit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: pax(1) gzip functionality
Message-ID:  <20010426132447.F2224@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <200104261542.f3QFgiM61575@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>; from brian@Awfulhak.org on Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 04:42:44PM %2B0100
References:  <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> <200104261542.f3QFgiM61575@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>

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On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 04:42:44PM +0100, Brian Somers wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 02:54:25AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > > Please review the following code from OpenBSD; it adds -z and -Z
> > > options to pax(1) to gzip(1) the archives created.
> >=20
> > Sigh.  They could have generalized this just a little and supported Bzi=
p2
> > at the same time.  Please let me know after you commit this so I can do
> > this.
>=20
> Is this necessary ?  What's the problem with using a pipe ?  Isn't=20
> this the same argument as the xargs one we've just gotten through ?
>=20
> Maybe I'm missing something...

This is useful in tar compatibility mode, and therefore it may as well
be used for pax mode too.

Kris

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