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Date:      Fri, 23 Apr 2004 20:56:36 +0000 (UTC)
From:      naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
To:        cvs-src@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bad news for bsdtar..
Message-ID:  <c6bvu4$1411$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>
References:  <200404231627.i3NGRcVA096244@repoman.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0404231145150.6894-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>

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Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> wrote:

> It looks to me that the tar in 4.8 is doing something very
> sneeky with it's IOs..
> maybe detecting /dev/null and instead discarding the data?

Yes.  See src/buffer.c, ca. line 800.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de



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