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Re: [Bug-tar] closeopen() rationale?
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Bdale Garbee |
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Re: [Bug-tar] closeopen() rationale? |
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Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:41:47 -0700 |
On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 10:44 +0200, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> Hi Bdale,
>
> > A bug filed a while back by one of the users of my Debian packaging of tar
> > noted that passing pipes via <() in bash on the tar command line had broken,
> > and Ingo Saitz later tracked this down to the introduction of closeopen() on
> > 2006-07-03, but noted there was no reason given for the change.
>
> Looks like Debian ships an outdated version of tar.
Ah, right, this report was against the Debian stable release which
shipped with a 1.16 derivative. I've got 1.19 in unstable and in the
testing tree for the next release.
Thanks for reminding me of the history on this.
Bdale