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)
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