Re: [Bug-tar] avoid spurious test failure (working --listed), #24

[Paul Eggert]

Ralph Corderoy <address@hidden> writes:

> sort's stderr is silent unless there's a problem.

One alternative is that 'configure' could complain if "sort" outputs
anything on stderr given a trivial case.  Or the tests involving
"sort" could each test for this incompatibility of CoSort, and ignore
stderr only in that case.