[Bug 10866] New: busybox tar does not mention -o (--no-same-owner) option anywhere in its help output

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https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=10866

            Bug ID: 10866
           Summary: busybox tar does not mention -o (--no-same-owner)
                    option anywhere in its help output
           Product: Busybox
           Version: 1.27.x
          Hardware: All
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P5
         Component: Other
          Assignee: unassigned at busybox.net
          Reporter: alt.j2-4o4s2yon at yopmail.com
                CC: busybox-cvs at busybox.net
  Target Milestone: ---

sudo tar xof make-3.82.tar.gz works (i.e. all files are owned by root, not by
"1000") yet nowhere in busybox's output this option is mentioned.

$ busybox tar
BusyBox v1.27.2 (2018-01-04 01:07:56 WET) multi-call binary.

Usage: tar -[cxtzJjahmvO] [-X FILE] [-T FILE] [-f TARFILE] [-C DIR] [FILE]...

Create, extract, or list files from a tar file

Operation:
        c       Create
        x       Extract
        t       List
        f       Name of TARFILE ('-' for stdin/out)
        C       Change to DIR before operation
        v       Verbose
        z       (De)compress using gzip
        J       (De)compress using xz
        j       (De)compress using bzip2
        a       (De)compress using lzma
        O       Extract to stdout
        h       Follow symlinks
        m       Don't restore mtime
        exclude File to exclude
        X       File with names to exclude
        T       File with names to include


it's not mentioned here tar -[cxtzJjahmvO]  nor later as a line in the
operation output.

arguably -o should be the default behaviour anyway... the behaviour to create
files with a random owner when root extracts it seems to predate the internet.

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