* Fixed tar creation support when reading from stdin ('tar -cf - . ')

    thanks to Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@transmeta.com>
 -Erik

3 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Changelog b/Changelog
index f9d385622..b9ca9a148 100644
--- a/Changelog
+++ b/Changelog
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
         * Fixed a _horrible_ bug where 'tar -tvf' could unlink
             local files!!!  Fix thanks to Marius Groeger <mgroeger@sysgo.de>
         * Fixed a nasty bug in tar when could mess up saved symlinks.
+        * Fixed tar creation support when reading from stdin ('tar -cf - . ') 
+            thanks to Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@transmeta.com>
         * Updates to handle Linux 2.4.0 kernels (kludged around the
             "none" entries in /proc/mounts, added a hack to make sysinfo
             work with both old and new kernels).
diff --git a/archival/tar.c b/archival/tar.c
index 611bbd9a0..af017d112 100644
--- a/archival/tar.c
+++ b/archival/tar.c
@@ -198,6 +198,8 @@ extern int tar_main(int argc, char **argv)
                                         tarName = *(++argv);
                                         if (tarName == NULL)
                                                 fatalError( "Option requires an argument: No file specified\n");
+                                        if (!strcmp(tarName, "-"))
+                                                tostdoutFlag = TRUE;
                                         stopIt=TRUE;
                                         break;
 
diff --git a/tar.c b/tar.c
index 611bbd9a0..af017d112 100644
--- a/tar.c
+++ b/tar.c
@@ -198,6 +198,8 @@ extern int tar_main(int argc, char **argv)
                                         tarName = *(++argv);
                                         if (tarName == NULL)
                                                 fatalError( "Option requires an argument: No file specified\n");
+                                        if (!strcmp(tarName, "-"))
+                                                tostdoutFlag = TRUE;
                                         stopIt=TRUE;
                                         break;