Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
