On Tuesday 25 of March 2014 22:51:11 Karl Berry wrote: > rms is ok with the exception for binary output to the terminal, and > wants this text: > > There is an exception for programs whose output in certain cases is > binary data. Sending such output to a terminal is useless and can > cause trouble. If such a program normally sends its output to > stdout, it should detect, in these cases, when the output is a > terminal and give an error message instead. The -f option should > override this exception, thus permitting the output to go to the > terminal.
Thanks a lot for processing this. This is kind of philosophical thread and I recall one thing: should we take the detection of /dev/null output as an OK exception? tar/src/create.c: 482 if (dev_null_output) 483 return totals_option && sparse_option && ST_IS_SPARSE (*st); Pavel
