| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
|---|---|
| To: | Tena Sakai <tsakai(at)gallo(dot)ucsf(dot)edu> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Kenneth Marshall <ktm(at)rice(dot)edu>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: tar, but not gnu tar |
| Date: | 2007-08-23 19:02:18 |
| Message-ID: | 200708231902.l7NJ2Ii28748@momjian.us |
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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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