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Article #725Re: FIFOs break tar, others
From: William E. Davidsen Jr
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1988 16:34
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1988 16:34
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Several people have told me that pipes can cause trouble with cpio if
they are open. I have not been able to cause that behavior, but I don't
doubt it for a moment. I repeated my tests as follows, without failure.
/etc/mknode fifo p # create the pipe
sleep 180 > fifo # get it going
ls | cpio -ov > /tmp/x$$ # try a dump
Thanks to several who clarified this.
--
bill davidsen (wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5,comp.unix.microport,comp.unix.xenix,comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: FIFOs break tar, others Message-ID: <9918@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> Date: 14 Mar 88 16:34:54 GMT References: <1512@sugar.UUCP> <9824@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> <1566@sugar.UUCP> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 13