On Saturday 24 October 2009 12:44, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 11:49:10AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> >>Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com> 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.

From my side, I prefer to squash that busybox bug.
This is the second time people complain about it,
so it is a reoccurring problem.

The attached patch has been pushed to busybox git.

function                                             old     new   delta
tar_main                                             702     751     +49

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