FIFOs break tar, others

[William E. Davidsen Jr]

  Several people have told me that pipes can cause trouble with cpio if
they are open. I have not been able to cause that behavior, but I don't
doubt it for a moment. I repeated my tests as follows, without failure.
	/etc/mknode fifo p	# create the pipe
	sleep 180 > fifo	# get it going
	ls | cpio -ov > /tmp/x$$ # try a dump

  Thanks to several who clarified this.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu at ge-crd.arpa)
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