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[Bug-tar] Documentation for warning (3.9) not accurate


From: Tobias Mark
Subject: [Bug-tar] Documentation for warning (3.9) not accurate
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 20:58:33 +0100
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Chapter 3.9 (http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/tar.html#SEC48) say:
"Warning messages are output to the standard error and they do not affect the exit 
code of|tar|  command."

However the warning"%s: file changed as we read it"  in fact only appears with 
a changed (non-zero) exit code.
According to multiple discussions (for example: 
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2007-08/msg00042.html)
this is the intended behaviour, so the documentation should be fixed?

I would like it even better if--warning=no-file-changed could be used to 
disable this non-zero exit code.






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