On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 09:35:12AM +0200, Gerhard Schmidt wrote:> Am 23.08.2016 um 09:18 schrieb Daniel Braniss: > > > >> On 23 Aug 2016, at 10:06, Gerhard Schmidt <estartu at ze.tum.de> wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> i'm quite often use tar to copy files using > >> > >> tar cf - /some/dir | (cd /dest/dir; tar xvvf - ) > > the ???new??? way: > > tar cf - /some/dir | tar xvvd - -C /dest/dir > > which of course does not explain way your version hangs, but this one is cleaner, and btw, don???t > > include /. > > that's very strange. It's working, but doesn't solve another related > problem. When i pipe the tar thru nc a have the same problem as my > version. And it's no difference if there is a tar c an the receiving end > of nc or just a '> file.tar'Is the sending side using nc -N ? If not, the sending socket is not being shut down. Regards, Gary
Am 23.08.2016 um 13:31 schrieb Gary Palmer:> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 09:35:12AM +0200, Gerhard Schmidt wrote: >> Am 23.08.2016 um 09:18 schrieb Daniel Braniss: >>> >>>> On 23 Aug 2016, at 10:06, Gerhard Schmidt <estartu at ze.tum.de> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> i'm quite often use tar to copy files using >>>> >>>> tar cf - /some/dir | (cd /dest/dir; tar xvvf - ) >>> the ???new??? way: >>> tar cf - /some/dir | tar xvvd - -C /dest/dir >>> which of course does not explain way your version hangs, but this one is cleaner, and btw, don???t >>> include /. >> >> that's very strange. It's working, but doesn't solve another related >> problem. When i pipe the tar thru nc a have the same problem as my >> version. And it's no difference if there is a tar c an the receiving end >> of nc or just a '> file.tar' > > Is the sending side using nc -N ? If not, the sending socket is not being > shut down.Is that something new? Because it worked on freebsd9 without the -N option. The problem seams to be that tar c doesn't terminate after the last File is send. I think it send the EOF (because nc -N terminates and therefor terminates the pipe) but the tar process doesn't terminate. Estartu -- ------------------------------------------------- Gerhard Schmidt | E-Mail: schmidt at ze.tum.de TU-M?nchen | Jabber: estartu at ze.tum.de WWW & Online Services | Tel: 089/289-25270 | Fax: 089/289-25257 | PGP-Publickey auf Anfrage