Tena Sakai wrote: > Hi Tom, > Hi Bruce, > > Thanks for your input. Fair enough. I redid it. > This time, in the first window, I ran this mini > shell program continuously: > > while true > > do > > date >> big.input > > done > > In the 2nd window: > > tar cf ../moo.tar . > tar_errlog 2>&1 > > Tar returned the exit code 0. In the tar_errlog, it said: > tar: ./big.input: file changed as we read it This seems to contradict what we say about GNU tar? Is this GNU tar? What version? -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq
