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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nathan Stratton Treadway - natha...@ontko.com - Mid-Atlantic region Ray Ontko & Co. - Software consulting services - http://www.ontko.com/ GPG Key: http://www.ontko.com/~nathanst/gpg_key.txt ID: 1023D/ECFB6239 Key fingerprint = 6AD8 485E 20B9 5C71 231C 0C32 15F3 ADCD ECFB 6239