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Re: [Bug-tar] --exclude-from using process substitution fails
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Sergey Poznyakoff |
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Re: [Bug-tar] --exclude-from using process substitution fails |
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Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:26:43 +0300 |
Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> Out of curiosity, why bother to close all the open file descriptors?
This change was introduced as a part of measures to prevent running
off the available file descriptors when many -C options were used.
The bug was reported by Ed Leaver on 2006-06-28
(http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2006-06/msg00038.html)
The complete patch was published on 2007-03-28
(http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2006-07/msg00000.html)
Regards,
Sergey