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From: Yar Tikhiy <yar@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: bin/47560: tar 'z' option gzip'd output has extra garbage
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The following reply was made to PR bin/47560; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Yar Tikhiy <yar@FreeBSD.org>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, archie@packetdesign.com
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Subject: Re: bin/47560: tar 'z' option gzip'd output has extra garbage
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 16:35:52 +0300

 This seems to be an undocumented feature (i.e., a bug) of GNU tar
 itself.  If writing a compressed archive to anything but a plain
 file, GNU tar will zero pad it to the next block boundary (10K by
 default.)  I think documenting this feature in the FreeBSD tar(1)
 manpage will be sufficient to close this PR.
 
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 Yar