Re: [Bug-tar] record size = x blocks?

[Tim Kientzle]

Mads Kiilerich wrote:
> On 03/19/2009 07:00 PM, Tim Kientzle wrote:
>
> > > I think that an additional option, similar to
> > > gcc's -W, would be in place.  For example, `tar --warning=record' would
> > > enable emitting the record size warning.
> > >
> > > Opinions?
> >
> > Yuck.
> >
> > GNU tar already has way too many command line options.
> >
> > If people are going to have to change scripts to
> > avoid these warnings ...
>
> Sergey proposed an option to _enable_ the message, so no people are 
> going to change scripts to avoid the warning.

Ah.  I did misread that.  Thanks for the
correction.

However, I'm still unconvinced.  Why does it
not suffice to enable the warning only when
the input is a device?  All of the complaints
about this have come from emitting the warning
when the input was a regular file or pipe.
The warning is clearly not helpful in either of
those cases.

Tim