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sr #109391: Child returned status 2

Submitter:  J <now3d>
Submitted:  Wed 27 Sep 2017 09:04:45 AM UTC
   
 
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Wed 27 Sep 2017 09:04:45 AM UTC, original submission:  

Hello

I saw in latest 1.29 the error numbers are output, rather than strerror(). Could that be updated? Would this be supported?

system.c:194

      else if (WEXITSTATUS (wait_status) != 0)
FATAL_ERROR ((0, 0, _("Child returned status %d"),
      WEXITSTATUS (wait_status)));

$ tar cvfz .thunderbird 2017-09-2
tar: 2017-09-2: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar (child): .thunderbird: Cannot open: Is a directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now



There are others for signals
  if (!(!eof && sig == SIGPIPE))
    FATAL_ERROR ((0, 0, _("Child died with signal %d"), sig));


Could strsignal() be used too so those are clearer?

Thank you

J <now3d>

 

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