[BusyBox] couple of patches for tar.c

[Magick]

On Tue, 11 Sep 2001 22:15:55 David Douthitt wrote:
> Magick wrote:
> 
> > The second (tar-feature.patch) will make tar include explicitly all
> > specified files, even if they are in the exclude list, this is not
> > something GNU tar does, but I'm posting it so it can be considered.
> 
> I'm not sure what this is for...  Can you explain further?  Why would
> you want to explicitly include something to be excluded?  Wouldn't it be
> easier to just remove from the exclude list?
> 
> All I can think of is excluding a directory (in other words, dir/*) and
> including a specific file (dir/file).  Is this the case?
Yes it is. 

> If so, then maybe, just maybe, your patch would make busybox tar useful
> for LRP and descendants.  This would be VERY nice...
Well, i'm using busybox tar now for my firewall, it is based on a LRP
version. The implementation is probably not the fastest, but it is the most
easiest to make.

Bart
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