On Jan 18, 12:07am, cjs@cynic.net (Curt Sampson) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: Removing GNU tar and GNU cpio from src?

| I would be happy if pax complained but managed to deal with the problem.
| Older versions of gnu tar don't even complain.

It deals with the problem (i.e. it untars as many files as gnu tar does).
It just exits with 1. And no, I am not going to `fix' it to exit with 0,
on broken tar files.

| (And yes, I will have a look at fixing the Apache code when I have the
| time. But we still will not be able to untar historical files.)

That'd be great.

christos