patch: unzip succeeds with CRC errors

Paul Fox pgf at brightstareng.com
Wed Mar 29 07:08:18 PST 2006


 >  > > Paul:  could you explain to Glenn what you want to do to
 >  > > tar?  (And anything you didn't do to unzip that you still
 >  > > want to do?) ...

i forgot to answer the second part of this.  i believe unzip's
behavior is now acceptable -- any errors for which if fails
immediately are errors which require external tools to remedy.
things like permissions problems, node incompatibility, disk
full, etc.  trying to proceed in the face of those errors is
unnecessary, in my opinion.  (the argument for crc errors was
better, since the only tool that can work around the errors is
the extraction program itself.)

paul
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 paul fox, pgf at brightstareng.com


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