Subject: Re: [PATCH] tar: on extract, -o is --no-same-owner

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:44:46 +0200

Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <[email-masked]> writes:

> On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 11:49:10AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>>Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <[email-masked]> writes:
>>
>>> I suppose xf - -o would work?
>>
>>Isn't that the same as 'xfo -'?
>
> Not really (if you do not permute the arguments which we don't in
> busybox, for size reasons).

There is no argument permutation.  The traditional argument parsing of
tar does not cluster option letters with option arguments.

Of course, just using 'xof -' will work around this busybox bug.

Andreas.

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