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From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 20:56:36 +0000 (UTC)
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Subject: Re: bad news for bsdtar..
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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