On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 10:44 +0200, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote: > Hi Bdale, > > > A bug filed a while back by one of the users of my Debian packaging of tar > > noted that passing pipes via <() in bash on the tar command line had broken, > > and Ingo Saitz later tracked this down to the introduction of closeopen() on > > 2006-07-03, but noted there was no reason given for the change. > > Looks like Debian ships an outdated version of tar.
Ah, right, this report was against the Debian stable release which shipped with a 1.16 derivative. I've got 1.19 in unstable and in the testing tree for the next release. Thanks for reminding me of the history on this. Bdale
