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Date:      Tue, 23 Aug 2016 09:06:07 +0200
From:      Gerhard Schmidt <estartu@ze.tum.de>
To:        freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Problems with piped tar
Message-ID:  <96b7f57f-74ac-9445-1d04-61327ab111dc@ze.tum.de>

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Hi,

i'm quite often use tar to copy files using

tar cf - /some/dir | (cd /dest/dir; tar xvvf - )

the files are copied without a problem but the reading tar never
terminates and so the whole command never terminates.

This is new since FreeBSD 10.

Regards
   Estartu


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