shouldn't tar quit at end of archive?

[Glenn L. McGrath]

On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 16:12:20 -0500
Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:


> When you go "gunzip thing.gz | tar x" you don't want gunzip() to get an EPIPE 
> writing to stdout due to the trailing zeroes.  Perhaps if tar expects up to 
> 1024k of zeroes, it should read up to 1024k of extra zeroes and then stop?

It can be any multiple of 512, its set by the -b option when the tar
file is created.


Glenn