More undocumented performance issues with dump
Ian! D. Allen [CGL]
idallen at watcgl.waterloo.edu
Tue Jun 12 01:46:11 AEST 1990
> I guess there's something dump can figure out from the file name that
> it can't figure out with fstat() on the open device. Too bad.
> Better not have any non-standard names for your tapes, I guess.
This was wrong. Ultrix dump assumes that any output to stdout is to a
pipe; it doesn't do the same stat() [fstat()] tests to determine device
type that it does when you give the file name on the command line.
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-IAN! (Ian! D. Allen) idallen at watcgl.uwaterloo.ca idallen at watcgl.waterloo.edu
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