Re: [Bug-tar] closeopen() rationale?

[Bdale Garbee]

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 Looks like Debian ships an outdated version of tar.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