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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: | Sun, 28 Apr 2013 23:32:52 -0700 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130404 Thunderbird/17.0.5 |
If you look at the gzip source code you'll find a number of circumstances that will cause it to exit with status 2, as a warning. This API isn't likely to change any time soon, I'm afraid, as gzip is fairly frozen.
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