Re: [Bug-tar] error handling and exit code (patch for tar-1.20/1.21)

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 04 March 2009, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
>Solar Designer <address@hidden> ha escrit:
>> I'd like to submit upstream a patch from Openwall GNU/*/Linux that we
>> came up with in Nov-Dec 2008, and which we've extensively tested since
>> then
>
>Thanks a lot. These are very reasonable changes. I have one doubt,
>though: are you sure that a file disappearing from under the running tar
>can be treated as unimportant error, especially when in incremental backup
>mode?
>
>Regards,
>Sergey

This is something I get during an amanda backup run, and the only cause is 
always kmail doing background maintenance tasks that result in messages being 
purged for old age reasons in some of the mailing list folders.  As its 
advisory only, and isn't an exit causing error, I would much prefer that the 
current behavior be maintained.  I _do_ want to be advised of it, and am in 
the emails I get from amanda, so it is a valuable trouble shooting tool IMO.

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