Re: [Bug-tar] --exclude-from using process substitution fails

[Paul Eggert]

"Sergey Poznyakoff" <address@hidden> writes:

>       * src/tar.c (main): Move closeopen after decode_options to
>       allow shell process substitution to work.

Out of curiosity, why bother to close all the open file descriptors?
It sounds like a recipe for further problems.  Also, it consumes a bit
of time.