FIFOs break tar, others

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <3776 at chinet.UUCP> les at chinet.UUCP (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
>Don't forget that reading from a FIFO deletes the data.  Thus if you let
>tar or cpio read them, some other process is going to lose its input.

Such archive programs should treat FIFOs the same way as symbolic links
or device special files, namely record information about them but not
attempt to archive their contents.