Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] Do not fail when 'compress' is unable to provide sufficient compress ratio

[Paul Eggert]

On 04/25/13 08:49, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:
> Only if the "random future compressor" continues repeating the errors of the 
> past.

Hmm, OK, thanks, you convinced me.
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.