>>I like an end-of-dump marker for folks who want to check if the dump got
>>truncated somehow. I can see how to do that for text dumps, but what
>>about for tar or custom dumps?
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> Wouldn't it be more effective to test for non zero return status as this
> handles -Fc cases, etc, which would be non-trivial to test.
That assumes you are there at the time of dump...
Chris