Problems with piped tar

[Gary Palmer]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 09:35:12AM +0200, Gerhard Schmidt wrote:
> Am 23.08.2016 um 09:18 schrieb Daniel Braniss:
> > 
> >> On 23 Aug 2016, at 10:06, Gerhard Schmidt <estartu at ze.tum.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> i'm quite often use tar to copy files using
> >>
> >> tar cf - /some/dir | (cd /dest/dir; tar xvvf - )
> > the ???new??? way:
> > 	tar cf - /some/dir | tar xvvd - -C /dest/dir
> > which of course does not explain way your version hangs, but this one is cleaner, and btw, don???t
> > include /.
> 
> that's very strange. It's working, but doesn't solve another related
> problem. When i pipe the tar thru nc a have the same problem as my
> version. And it's no difference if there is a tar c an the receiving end
> of nc or just a '> file.tar'

Is the sending side using nc -N ?  If not, the sending socket is not being
shut down.

Regards,

Gary