patch: unzip succeeds with CRC errors
Rich Felker
dalias at aerifal.cx
Wed Mar 29 08:44:13 PST 2006
On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 10:08:18AM -0500, Paul Fox wrote:
> > > > 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.)
As a user, I agree.
Rich
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