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Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] Do not fail when 'compress' is unable to provide s
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Pavel Raiskup |
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Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] Do not fail when 'compress' is unable to provide sufficient compress ratio |
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Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:32:25 +0100 |
On Mon, 2013-02-25 at 11:39 -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> I suggest something simpler: namely, just declare that the
> -Z (compress) program must conform to the compress API,
> so that its exit status 2 really means OK. That way,
> we can change only src/system.c and NEWS. The compress API
> is obsolete and isn't likely to change so this sounds safe.
Thanks for comments! Attaching approach with just src/system.c
and NEWS edited.
Pavel
0001-tar-The-Lempel-Ziv-coding-handler-bugfix.patch
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