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.
- [Bug-tar] [PATCH] Do not fail when 'compress' is unable ... Pavel Raiskup
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- Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] Do not fail when 'compres... Paul Eggert
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- Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] Do not fail ... Paul Eggert
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- Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] Do not f... Antonio Diaz Diaz
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- Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] Do n... Paul Eggert
- Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] Do n... Pavel Raiskup
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