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


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