Re: tar, but not gnu tar

Hi Bruce,

> This seems to contradict what we say about GNU tar?
> Is this GNU tar? What version?

Yes, it is GNU tar v1.14

Regards,

Tena Sakai
tsakai(at)gallo(dot)ucsf(dot)edu

-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:bruce(at)momjian(dot)us]
Sent: Thu 8/23/2007 12:02 PM
To: Tena Sakai
Cc: Tom Lane; Kenneth Marshall; Kevin Grittner; pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] tar, but not gnu tar

Tena Sakai wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> Hi Bruce,
>
> Thanks for your input. Fair enough. I redid it.
> This time, in the first window, I ran this mini
> shell program continuously:
>
> while true
> > do
> > date >> big.input
> > done
>
> In the 2nd window:
>
> tar cf ../moo.tar . > tar_errlog 2>&1
>
> Tar returned the exit code 0. In the tar_errlog, it said:
> tar: ./big.input: file changed as we read it

This seems to contradict what we say about GNU tar? Is this GNU tar?
What version?

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