Jakob Bohm wrote:
I am afraid this is an observation of the general behavior of this class of programs. The primary reason for this behavior is that the kernels they run on top of restrict the options for where in the VFS processing chain they can be called to do their work.
Yes, I'm aware of such problems. But these problems affect every application, not just 'tar', and they should be fixed at their source. We shouldn't have to make painful changes to nearly every application to work around deficiencies in the virus scanners or the kernels or whatever. All the problems that you mention (including machine crashes) can be fixed inside the scanners or kernels involved.
