Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH 0/5] Several changes in multi-volume archive handling

[Pavel Raiskup]

On Sunday 06 of December 2015 22:28:54 Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> Hi Pavel,
> 
> 1 - 4 applied (with slight modifications - 0a93c16c & 239441b5).
> 
> As to 5, I have serious doubts.  Of course hinting about the ? key
> is a nice idea.  However, the "Prepare volume" prompt is in its
> present form for long enough time, so that some other software
> might rely on its wording.

Definitely the prompt is not ideal now :/.  If we want to be
super-cautious, we could have additional option or environment variable to
enforce the old prompt format?

Do we know which software parses tar's prompt?

Pavel