On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 11:35 -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On 2011-09-27, at 12:28 PM, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote: > > Kevin Fox <[email protected]> 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.
It can use SIGTSTP/SIGCONT instead, but to the same effect I think. There are a few other ones a terminal can issue too like SIGTTIN and SIGTTOU. > 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. Thanks. :) Kevin > > Cheers, Andreas > > > > >
