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.
