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Date:      Tue, 23 Aug 2016 13:09:26 +0200
From:      Arrigo Marchiori <ardovm@yahoo.it>
To:        schmidt@ze.tum.de
Cc:        freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Problems with piped tar
Message-ID:  <20160823110926.GB76750@nuvolo>
In-Reply-To: <6a841a00-6765-f1a2-02c3-9ce87ec595e8@ze.tum.de>
References:  <96b7f57f-74ac-9445-1d04-61327ab111dc@ze.tum.de> <E0606B64-AF3A-4FB9-BCF8-9F7C7AE85FE7@cs.huji.ac.il> <6a841a00-6765-f1a2-02c3-9ce87ec595e8@ze.tum.de>

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Hello,

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 09:35:12AM +0200, Gerhard Schmidt wrote:

> Am 23.08.2016 um 09:18 schrieb Daniel Braniss:
> >=20
> >> On 23 Aug 2016, at 10:06, Gerhard Schmidt <estartu@ze.tum.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> i'm quite often use tar to copy files using
> >>
> >> tar cf - /some/dir | (cd /dest/dir; tar xvvf - )
> > the =E2=80=98new=E2=80=99 way:
> > 	tar cf - /some/dir | tar xvvd - -C /dest/dir
> > which of course does not explain way your version hangs, but this one=
 is cleaner, and btw, don=E2=80=99t
> > include /.
>=20
> that's very strange. It's working, but doesn't solve another related
> problem. When i pipe the tar thru nc a have the same problem as my
> version. And it's no difference if there is a tar c an the receiving en=
d
> of nc or just a '> file.tar'

Maybe you are not invoking nc(1) with the -N option?

>From the manual page:

>>>>     -N      shutdown(2) the network socket after EOF on the input.  =
Some
>>>>             servers require this to finish their work.

I hope this helps.

Regards,
--=20
rigo

http://rigo.altervista.org



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