> 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.
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