From:	sos AT buggy DOT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject:	RE: Tar bug
22 Feb 1998 11:13:41 -0800 :
Message-ID:	<01BD3FDE.93A02EC0.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@sos>
To:	"'cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com'" <cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com>

Sergey Okhapkin wrote:
> 
> "tar cf - filelist" doesn't writes tar archive to stdout.

This happens when stdout is not a regular file.

f:\cygnus\user-tools\tar\src>diff -up buffer.c.orig buffer.c
--- buffer.c.orig       Fri Feb 13 23:11:43 1998
+++ buffer.c    Sun Feb 22 22:02:50 1998
@@ -804,11 +804,15 @@ open_archive (enum access_mode access)

   /* Detect if outputting to "/dev/null".  */
   {
+#ifndef __CYGWIN32__
     struct stat dev_null_stat;

     stat ("/dev/null", &dev_null_stat);
     dev_null_output = (S_ISCHR (archive_stat.st_mode)
                       && archive_stat.st_rdev == dev_null_stat.st_rdev);
+#else
+    dev_null_output = 0;
+#endif
   }

   if (!_isrmt (archive) && S_ISREG (archive_stat.st_mode))

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