tar has deficient error handling. send-pr fix sent 31 Jan 2011

[Julian H. Stacey]

FreeBSD tar has deficient error handling.  I sent a fix 31 Jan 2011
	http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=154407
Please commit the fix or write & commit a better fix.

As error codes ignored, I wonder if other poor coding may lurk in tar.  
Might be nice if someone else would read through tar.

ports/ : Tar allows some errors in ports pkg-list to go un-noticed.
  Using make package, tar fails to see errors, fails to return error
  to make, some pkg-list not checked properly & accumulate errors,
  A bunch of errors will probably show up when tar is fixed, the
  more the longer we do nothing.  ( I can't remember which pkg-list
  are broken, I've not kept note, The solution is to read tar &
  commit a fix to tar ASAP)

Cheers,
Julian
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