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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] Do not fail when 'compress' is unable to provide sufficient compress ratio |
| Date: | Wed, 24 Apr 2013 22:58:10 -0700 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130329 Thunderbird/17.0.5 |
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.
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