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From: | Pavel Raiskup |
Subject: | Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] Do not fail when 'compress' is unable to provide sufficient compress ratio |
Date: | Thu, 25 Apr 2013 09:36:04 +0200 |
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On Wednesday, April 24, 2013 10:58:10 PM Paul Eggert wrote: > I think I'd rather have tar assume the gzip exit-status > convention, and depart from that only for bzip2 and lzip > (which don't use the convention). That's a bit simpler > and is more likely to match some random future compressor. Should I fix that patch then? This will probably bring incompatibilities into dealing with user-defined scripts passed by --use-compress-program (until that change, tar was accepted non-zero exit value as an error). Don't really know how much we should care about this.. Pavel
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