FIFOs break tar, others
William E. Davidsen Jr
davidsen at steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP
Tue Mar 15 02:34:54 AEST 1988
Several people have told me that pipes can cause trouble with cpio if
they are open. I have not been able to cause that behavior, but I don't
doubt it for a moment. I repeated my tests as follows, without failure.
/etc/mknode fifo p # create the pipe
sleep 180 > fifo # get it going
ls | cpio -ov > /tmp/x$$ # try a dump
Thanks to several who clarified this.
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bill davidsen (wedu at ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me
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