shouldn't tar quit at end of archive?

[Glenn L. McGrath]

On Sat, 1 Apr 2006 14:25:28 -0500
Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:

> BTW, is there a reason a pipe needs to be used for this? It seems like
> it would also be possible to use the decompression code in the same BB
> process rather than forking.

It could probably done with select or poll instead of fork and pipe,
not 100% sure, havent tried them.


Glenn