Bug in tar?

[Michael Meskes <meskes@topsystem.de>]

I was just trying to copy my kernel modules via tar. But the following
command doesn't work:

( cd /lib/modules; tar -cf - 2.0.27 ) | sudo tar -xpvf -

It just tells me:

tar: Hmm, this doesn't look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next file header

Reversing the logic and using the following instead works fine.

tar -cf - 2.0.27 | ( cd /dos/linux/lib/modules ; sudo tar -xpvf - )

Is this a bug in tar?

Michael
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