BUG: ssh hangs on full stdout-file-system

[Markus Friedl]

On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 06:01:41PM +0200, Olaf Rogalsky wrote:
> System: Linux 2.4.18, openssh-3.4p1
> 
> Problem: 
>   I use "ssh" and "tar" to backup remote directory trees to a local
>   hard-disk/file-system:
>   # ssh remote.server.org "tar -cz /home" >/backup/remote.tar.gz

what happens if you
# ssh remote.server.org "tar -cz /home" | cat > /backup/remote.tar.gz