> Ahh… never mind! > > As stated in the manpage tar will try to write to a > tape drive when being run w/o -f switch, so I found > the large file down in > > /dev/rmt/0 > > Cheers, > budy
In that particular situation, I think tar really could be smarter. If the -f option was not specified (and arguably whenever opening something in /dev/ ), I think it should leave out the O_CREAT flag, so as not to create large regular files in /dev. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
