Hi, is this a bug or not?
$ echo "hello" | dd of=x bs=1 seek=20G 6+0 records in 6+0 records out $ tar cf x.tar --sparse --totals x Total bytes written: 10240 (10KiB, 75B/s) but $ tar cf /dev/null --sparse --totals x tar: x: Cannot seek to 0: Bad file descriptor Total bytes written: 21474846720 (21GiB, 4.1GiB/s) tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Because this bahavior cause some problem for Amanda. _______________________________________________ Bug-tar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar
