On Wed, 27 Aug 2014, Warren Block wrote: > On Tue, 26 Aug 2014, Daniel Eischen wrote: > >> The man page is a little confusing. Here it says: >> >> --options options >> Select optional behaviors for particular modules. The >> argument is a text string containing comma-separated >> keywords and values. These are passed to the modules that >> handle particular formats to control how those formats will >> behave. Each option has one of the following forms: >> >> key=value >> The key will be set to the specified value in every >> module that supports it. Modules that do not >> support this key will ignore it. >> >> >> Then below, after the last option, it says: >> >> ... >> zip:compression=type >> Use type as compression method. Supported values are >> store (uncompressed) and deflate (gzip algorithm). >> >> If a provided option is not supported by any module, that is a >> fatal error. >> >> The first states that it is ignored, the latter states that it >> is a fatal error. The meaning of "any module" is subtle, at >> least for my feeble brain ;-) > > It suggests that options are passed to all modules, and each module is free > to ignore options it does not understand. But at least one module must > understand the option, or a fatal error is reported. Yes, I got that, but it is confusing when you are intentionally passing to only one module, as in the original post, "xz:9", and considering that the "fatal error" and "ignore it" parts are listed in separate sections. Regardless, tar(1) has many options, so a little confusion is not unsurprising :-) -- DEReceived on Wed Aug 27 2014 - 15:28:52 UTC
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