Re: [Bug-tar] gnutar exit status from SCHILY.* extensions, was: Re: bug in BSD tar?

[Steven Hartland]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sergey Poznyakoff" <address@hidden>
> > > GNU tar is broken.  POSIX specifically allows for vendor extensions (such
> > > as the SCHILY.* extensions which were introduced by star), and the correct
> > > way to handle them is by printing a warning message, ignoring the
> > > extension, 
>
> Yes, indeed.  It is fixed in the repository.  Thanks for reporting.


Thanks guys. As always a pleasure par-taking in a "can do" environment
even if it was just to raise the issue which then others "did fix" :)

   Steve

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