[BusyBox] Preserving permissions with the tar in busybox

[Rob Landley]

On Thursday 11 December 2003 04:00, Ben wrote:
> Hi,
> With GNU tar, I can do a --preserve-permissions when extracting a tarball
> to keep the same permissions on the files in the tarball.  This doesn't
> appear to be possible with the tar from busybox.  Am I correct in thinking
> that the busybox tar does not have this ability? Thanks,
> Ben

1) Out of morbid curiosity, why are the permissions ever _not_ preserved?

2) The short option is just p.  Did you try tar xvpjf blah.tbz?

Rob