[BusyBox] couple of patches for tar.c

David Douthitt ssrat at mailbag.com
Wed Sep 12 07:34:26 UTC 2001


Magick wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2001 22:15:55 David Douthitt wrote:

> > 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.

Being able to use busybox tar for everything would mean that ctar could
be removed, which provides yet more ever so precious space on disk.





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