Unpacking compressed archive fails when STDOUT is closed

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Issue

When tar is started with STDOUT closed, it fails to unpack the gzipped archive:

gzip: stdout: Bad file descriptor
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error in writing to standard output
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5)

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