From: cgf AT bbc DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject: Re: Tar bug
22 Feb 1998 18:57:55 -0800
Message-ID: <Eot8n6.IGG.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@bbc.com>
References: <01BD3FDE DOT 93A02EC0 AT sos>
Reply-To: cgf AT bbc DOT com
To: cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

In article <199802230212 DOT SAA20153 AT rtl DOT cygnus DOT com>,
Geoffrey Noer  <noer AT cygnus DOT com> wrote:
>Sergey Okhapkin wrote:
>> 
>> > "tar cf - filelist" doesn't writes tar archive to stdout.
>> 
>> This happens when stdout is not a regular file.
>
>Checked in the patch.

For the future, would it make sense to fill out the stat dev fields with
something unique for /dev/null?  That might help avoid this problem.
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