bb tar (1.1.3) bug?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote:

> bb tar extracting behaviour differs from gnu-tar.
> Consider this tar-ball:
>
> # busybox tar tvf ../bb.tar
> drwxr-xr-x 339/500         0 2006-07-18 12:35:23 3
> drwxr-xr-x 339/500         0 2006-07-18 12:35:23 2
> drwxr-xr-x 339/500         0 2006-07-18 12:36:03 1
> drwxr-xr-x 339/500         0 2006-07-18 12:36:38 1/10
> drwxr-xr-x 339/500         0 2006-07-18 12:36:38 1/10/100
> drwxr-xr-x 339/500         0 2006-07-18 12:36:38 1/10/101
> drwxr-xr-x 339/500         0 2006-07-18 12:36:38 1/10/102
> drwxr-xr-x 339/500         0 2006-07-18 12:36:03 1/11
>
> I want to extract everything below directory 1/10:
>
> # busybox tar xvf ../bb.tar 1/10
> 1/10
>
> Yes, only directory 1/10 is extracted, but using gnu-tar:
>
> # tar xvf ../bb.tar 1/10
> 1/10/
> 1/10/100/
> 1/10/101/
> 1/10/102/
>
> I get what I expect.

i recall reporting on that months ago and i'm pretty sure it's been
fixed in 1.2.0.  i don't have the bug report number in front of me,
sorry.

rday