Re: [Bug-tar] closed stderr can make tar corrupt its output archive

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Hi Jim,

>   - in --create mode, with a named target (i.e., not stdout),
>   - with stderr closed, and
>   - in a way that provokes tar to write a diagnostic,
> then tar corrupts the named output archive by writing the diagnostic it.

Thanks for reporting that. However I agree with Jörg that this is not a
tar problem, and that a better fix would be to ensure in main that
descriptors 0, 1, 2 be open.

Regards,
Sergey