>>>>> "Dave" == Dave Huang <khym@bga.com> writes:

    Dave> On Sun, 23 Feb 1997, Markus Kilbinger wrote:
    >> Can anybody confirm that using 'tar' with 'gzip' (z option)
    >> hangs under -current conditions (kernel and bins)? (E. g. 'tar
    >> tvzf test.tar.gz')
    >> 
    >> It only hangs as non root. If you start it as root it works!?
    >> 
    >> If you make a pipe by hand ('zcat test.tar.gz|tar tvf -') it
    >> works again.

    Dave> Yeah, I have the same problem, except it hangs even if I
    Dave> start it as root.  I can ^C the tar, or ^Z then kill (or
    Dave> kill -9, even) the process, and the shell thinks it's dead,
    Dave> but ps shows it in disk wait. Doing a ^T to send a SIGINFO
    Dave> says [thrd_sleep].

Has anybody found a reason for that?

Markus.