Re: [Bug-tar] tar: do not fail hardly when compressor just warns

2013-05-02 Thread Pavel Raiskup
Hi Antonio, some final comments from my site :). I don't want to beat anyone.. and you are right, the code change would be a little bit larger than my initial patch - and I can wait for complains that the change is tooo big.. Simply, it makes sense to work on this only if the upstream is really

Re: [Bug-tar] tar: do not fail hardly when compressor just warns

2013-05-02 Thread Antonio Diaz Diaz
Pavel Raiskup wrote: Hi Antonio, some final comments from my site :). I don't want to beat anyone.. and you are right, the code change would be a little bit larger than my initial patch - and I can wait for complains that the change is tooo big.. The problem is not (only) that the change is

Re: [Bug-tar] tar: do not fail hardly when compressor just warns

2013-04-29 Thread Antonio Diaz Diaz
Pavel Raiskup wrote: Hi Antonio, thanks for comments, You are welcome. :-) Exit value 2 is a general warning exit status among compressors Then those compressors have a serious problem with their APIs that should be fixed, or at least carefully documented. Callers like tar do not mind