[BusyBox] does tar not extract arguments recursively?

Glenn McGrath bug1 at iinet.net.au
Tue May 11 11:17:46 UTC 2004


On Mon, 10 May 2004 13:55:16 -0400 (EDT)
"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring.com> wrote:

>   thoughts?  is this the expected behaviour?

Looks like this is an inconsistency between GNU tar and busybox tar,
busybox tar assumes that any extra arguments are files, it doesnt do
anything special if directory names are specified.

It goes on my todo list to be fixed.


Glenn



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