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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