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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	vda.linux@googlemail.com, busybox@busybox.net,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tar: on extract, -o is --no-same-owner
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:44:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2ocnxt6jl.fsf@whitebox.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091024100502.GG4615@mx.loc> (Bernhard Reutner-Fischer's message of "Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:05:02 +0200")

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.

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-24 10:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1256328943-22136-1-git-send-email-rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>
2009-10-23 20:25 ` [PATCH] tar: on extract, -o is --no-same-owner Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
2009-10-23 21:06   ` Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
2009-10-23 21:26     ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-24  9:17       ` Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
2009-10-24  9:49         ` Andreas Schwab
2009-10-24  9:56           ` Jakub Narebski
2009-10-24 10:06             ` Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
2009-10-24 10:06             ` Andreas Schwab
2009-10-24 10:05           ` Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
2009-10-24 10:44             ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2009-10-24 13:06               ` Andreas Schwab
2009-10-24 19:25                 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-24 23:32               ` Denys Vlasenko

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