[BusyBox] BB tar -C does not work as GNU tar -C

Glenn McGrath bug1 at optushome.com.au
Tue Feb 11 18:13:03 UTC 2003


On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 14:34:48 +0100
Martin Volf <mv at inv.cz> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> The following patch for archival/tar.c is needed to make busybox
> v0.61.pre tar -C work as GNU tar -C. Without the patch the -C option
> works only for extracting.
> 

That patch doesnt work for extracting with exclude lists, it failed the
testsuite anyway.

Ill look into it further.



Glenn 



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