Re: [dev] [sbase] [PATCH] tar: support -f - as stdin/out

From: Eric Pruitt <eric.pruitt_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 14:50:30 -0700

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 10:35:52PM +0200, Eivind Uggedal wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 10:10 PM, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
> <czarkoff_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> > On OpenBSD without "-f" tar opens /dev/rst0 or whatever TAPE is set to.
>
> This was the main reason I created the patch. I ported OpenBSD pax/tar
> and I'm using it now for my distro. Since it defaults to the tape dev
> without -f- I have no way of transitioning to sbase tar without
> rewriting my scripts. I could use the newly added -z/-j/-J flags, but
> OpenBSD tar does not support -J so I have to xzdec -c | tar -xf-.

This is the type of context that should be included when you first send
a patch.

Eric
Received on Tue May 12 2015 - 23:50:30 CEST