Package: tar Version: 1.16-2 Followup-For: Bug #415477 I ran the version of tar in question through strace and noted that in contrast to the earlier (working) version of tar all file descriptors get closed at startup. If I understand the /dev/fd system correctly (and I'm not 100% sure I do) when strace sees [close(63) = 0] the descriptor has been closed and any attempt to open "/dev/fd/63" will fail.
I downloaded the source and I found the function call closeopen() [line 2257 of tar.c in main]. It seems commenting this function out fixes my problem. I don't understand why everything except stdin, stdout and stderr get closed at startup so this isn't exactly a patch but hopefuly it should make it will help. Thanks. Ian. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages tar depends on: ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries tar recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
