On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 05:18:39PM -0700, Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
I can also think of things like "tar" where I want indication of an error but still want the underlying program to proceed to completion.
<gripe subject="tar"> Why can't GNU tar make a distinction between real errors and ones that kind of normally happen during backup. Having a file change during a backup is a very different kind of error than being unable to write to the backup file because the filesystem filled up. Makes it hard to automate backups. </gripe> David -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
