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Re: [Help-tar] Does GNU tar close its input pipe before seeing EOF on it
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Sergey Poznyakoff |
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Re: [Help-tar] Does GNU tar close its input pipe before seeing EOF on it? |
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Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:41:25 +0200 |
Ersek, Laszlo <address@hidden> ha escrit:
> Does GNU tar (and if so, under what circumstances) close its input
> pipe before seeing EOF on it?
Yes, it does. The input stream is closed if tar determines that
there is nothing more to be read from there (e.g. it has received
the two null blocks that end the archive or has extracted all
requested files).
Regards,
Sergey