On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 16:41:31 -0600, Michael Burk wrote:
> Nathan, I think the following truth table will answer all your questions!
> (view in monospace font)
>
> Patch gzip Index Result
> no no no dump failed (end of tape)
> no no yes index tee cannot write
> no yes no gzip strange, dump failed
> no yes yes gzip strange, index tee strange, dump failed
> yes * * success, nothing strange
>
Most of them :)
Am I guessing correctly that the "Patch" here was one of the earlier
patches that touched all three file descriptors? And that when you
tried the one-line patch (that touched only "datafd"), your dump
succeeded, but "sed" complained about stdout again?
Nathan
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