On Wednesday, April 24, 2013 10:58:10 PM Paul Eggert wrote: > 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.
Should I fix that patch then? This will probably bring incompatibilities into dealing with user-defined scripts passed by --use-compress-program (until that change, tar was accepted non-zero exit value as an error). Don't really know how much we should care about this.. Pavel
