Re: error code for non-existent directory

Lasse Kliemann <[email protected]> wrote:

> Directories 'a' and 'b' both do not exist:
>
> $ star -c -diff -C a . b
> star: No such file or directory. Cannot change directory to 'a'.
> star: No such file or directory. Cannot change directory to 'b'.
> $ echo $?
> 2
>
> This looks okay.
>
> Now I create directory 'b'.
>
> $ star -c -diff -C a . b
> star: No such file or directory. Cannot change directory to 'a'.
> star: 0 blocks + 1024 bytes (total of 1024 bytes =3D 1.00k).
> $ echo $?
> 0
>
> Shouldn't this also return an error code !=3D 0?

What star does is aligned with normal tar behavior. If a file from the arg =
list =

cannot be archived, skip to the next one. This create an empty archive in y=
our =

case.

I would need to add code to count the chdir errors ;-)

> I also tried adding errctl=3D'ABORT|ALL *', but this does not make =

> a difference.

I am planning to add a way to change the default behavior to skip the error
to abort by using: errctl=3D'ABORT|CHDIR *'

J=F6rg

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