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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] Do not fail when 'compress' is unable to provide sufficient compress ratio |
Date: | Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:47:03 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130329 Thunderbird/17.0.5 |
On 04/26/2013 12:42 AM, Pavel Raiskup wrote: > I think that the '-I' should define perfectly the program return values. > So the -I /usr/bin/gzip could be considered like bad usage - and tar > behaves like this now. But with the proposed approach, -I /usr/bin/gzip behaves differently from -I gzip. Isn't that confusing? > I'm partly against > this because it complicates tar's api & user is always able to write > very simple wrapper Good point. So perhaps we shouldn't add that complexity. Still, it'd be better if we didn't have the sort of confusion illustrated above, somehow.
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