On Wednesday, March 12, 2014 16:08:58 Paul Eggert wrote: > Pavel Raiskup wrote: > > We should probably detect terminal "archive" input/output and fail > > appropriately? > > tar always does something like that. Sorry, I don't understand the > failure scenario here.
We could detect that archive contents are coming from terminal input and fail immediately (IIRC tar waits indefinitely ATM until it's input is cut by ctrl+d or it is killed).