tar behavior 9.* -> 10.*

[Allan Jude]

On 2014-10-24 08:15, rank1seeker at gmail.com wrote:
> https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/tar-errors-when-file-content-extracted-to-stdout-is-piped.48626/
> 
> Bug?
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What happens if you pipe it to something that doesn't close the pipe
prematurely

try:

tar ... | cat -

It makes sense that it throws an error when you pipe to head, which then
closes the pipe before the file has finished being written.

-- 
Allan Jude

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