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Re: [Bug-tar] tar -vf /dev/stdout produces corrupted archives

From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] tar -vf /dev/stdout produces corrupted archives
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:37:00 -0800
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Radek Brich <address@hidden> writes:

> I also tried to make it look less alien in the rest of the code.

It's getting better, but can't we avoid the call to 'stat'?  It's
better to use fstat after the file is open, no?  That would avoid a
race condition.
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