Paul Eggert <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, it's a problem if you give 'tar' an infinite tree, because tar > tries very hard to dump the whole thing, and having it check for loops > would slow it down. The simplest workaround I can think of is to not > use -h unless you know the tree is finite.
BTW: star implements a method to detect loops in the filesystem that does not cost extra time. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/files/'
