Hi Jim,
> The bug is that tar assumed open/creat would never return 2. The
> patch I supplied shows that this bug in GNU tar can be fixed with
> minimal effort.
Here's a simpler test case.
$ tar cf >(od -c) missingfile 2>&-
0000000 t a r : m i s s i n g f i l e
0000020 : C a n n o t s t a t : N
0000040 o s u c h f i l e o r d
0000060 i r e c t o r y \n \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0
0000100 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0
*
0024060 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0
0024071
$
Cheers,
Ralph.
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