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Date:      Thu, 26 Apr 2001 19:23:30 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        obrien@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, audit@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@Awfulhak.org
Subject:   Re: pax(1) gzip functionality 
Message-ID:  <200104261823.f3QINUM63571@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>  of "Thu, 26 Apr 2001 10:00:37 PDT." <20010426100037.C84210@dragon.nuxi.com> 

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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.
> > > 
> > > Sigh.  They could have generalized this just a little and supported Bzip2
> > > at the same time.  Please let me know after you commit this so I can do
> > > this.
> > 
> > Is this necessary ?  What's the problem with using a pipe ?  Isn't 
> > this the same argument as the xargs one we've just gotten through ?
> 
> What's wrong with:
>     tar cf - foo | gzip >foo.tar.gz
>     gzip -dc foo.tar.gz | tar xf -
> 
> Someone deemed them too inconvient for the number of times they are
> invoked.  I'm not going to enter that discussion, but _if_ gzip support
> is added, I feel bzip2 support should be added to be orthogonal with
> today's uses.

Agreed.

> -- 
> -- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)

-- 
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>                        <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org>
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