Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 16:42:44 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, audit@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: pax(1) gzip functionality Message-ID: <200104261542.f3QFgiM61575@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> of "Thu, 26 Apr 2001 08:21:33 PDT." <20010426082133.B72609@dragon.nuxi.com>
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> 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 ?
Maybe I'm missing something...
> --
> -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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