Pavel Raiskup <prais...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Thanks a lot for processing this. This is kind of philosophical thread
> and I recall one thing: should we take the detection of /dev/null output
> as an OK exception?
I believe that this gtar behavoir is a bug. It does not do what people expect
and on platforms that do not have /dev/zero, there is no way to tell gtar to do
what people expect.
Star has a special option -onull for the case that the user does not like the
files to be read.
Jörg
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