> Still, the current patch doesn't seem quite right; > what if the user specifies -I/usr/bin/gzip, or > something like that? It seems to me that we need > to let the user specify one or more "ok exit statuses", > i.e., exit statuses to treat as if they were zero.
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. Do you want some new "relaxing" option for specifying correct exit values? Possibly --relax-compressor-exit (or any other idea)? I'm partly against this because it complicates tar's api & user is always able to write very simple wrapper, but I'd be glad to implement it if you don't want to do it yourself. Pavel
