From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Max <mu@magi.net.ru>
Cc: 29094@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29094: dired-do-compress creates empty archives
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2017 20:46:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bmjegd5s.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171031233359.GA44370@magi.net.ru> (Max's message of "Wed, 1 Nov 2017 02:33:59 +0300")
tags 29094 + patch
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Max <mu@magi.net.ru> writes:
> When Z is pressed on a directory, dired (according to
> dired-compress-file-suffixes variable) runs the following command:
>
> tar -c directory | gzip -c9 > directory.tar.gz
>
> On my system running this command results in an error:
>
> tar: Failed open to write on /dev/rst0: Permission denied
>
> as tar(1) defaults -f to /dev/rst0.
>
> Argument '-f-' should be used to write to stdout.
Right, the GNU tar manual says [1]
By default, tar uses an archive file name that was compiled when it was
built on the system; usually this name refers to some physical tape
drive on the machine. However, the person who installed tar on the
system may not have set the default to a meaningful value as far as most
users are concerned.
So it's actually a bit surprising that the current values apparently
work for most people. I guess most GNU/Linux distros set the default to
stdin?
As far as I can tell, dropping the 'f' option was just an oversight (see
[2] and other messages in that thread).
> Also '-v' is probably not needed here, since the output is not used
> anywhere.
Makes sense.
> Here is a patch to correct this behaviour:
I think it's good for emacs-26. I assume you haven't assigned copyright
to Emacs (so it should be marked as a tiny change)?
[1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/file.html
[2]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-10/msg01282.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-05 1:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-31 23:33 bug#29094: dired-do-compress creates empty archives Max
2017-12-05 1:46 ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2017-12-07 3:25 ` Max
2017-12-08 9:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-08 9:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-11 23:48 ` Noam Postavsky
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