On 2011-09-27, at 12:28 PM, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote: > Kevin Fox <kevin....@pnnl.gov> ha escrit: > >> What about SIGSTOP/SIGCONT? I don't believe they can avoid those. > > SIGSTOP cannot be caught, blocked, or ignored. It is used only by > debuggers.
Isn't it also used by Ctrl-Z in bash, and then "bg/fg" will send SIGCONT when it resumes. I'm on the side of Kevin, that it makes sense for tar to be robust in the face of a short read, despite what the spec might write. Cheers, Andreas
