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@gallo.ucsf.edu


-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:bruce@momjian.us]
Sent: Thu 8/23/2007 12:02 PM
To: Tena Sakai
Cc: Tom Lane; Kenneth Marshall; Kevin Grittner; pgsql-admin@postgresql.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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