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Diffstat (limited to 'archival/tar.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | archival/tar.c | 27 |
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/archival/tar.c b/archival/tar.c index bd8e5dc..3c0ceb7 100644 --- a/archival/tar.c +++ b/archival/tar.c @@ -841,6 +841,33 @@ int tar_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv) #if ENABLE_FEATURE_TAR_LONG_OPTIONS applet_long_options = tar_longopts; #endif +#if ENABLE_DESKTOP + if (argv[1][0] != '-') { + /* Compat: + * 1st argument without dash handles options with parameters + * differently from dashed one: it takes *next argv[i]* + * as paramenter even if there are more chars in 1st argument: + * "tar fx TARFILE" - "x" is not taken as f's param + * but is interpreted as -x option + * "tar -xf TARFILE" - dashed equivalent of the above + * "tar -fx ..." - "x" is taken as f's param + * getopt32 wouldn't handle 1st command correctly. + * Unfortunately, people do use such commands. + * We massage argv[1] to work around it by moving 'f' + * to the end of the string. + * More contrived "tar fCx TARFILE DIR" still fails, + * but such commands are much less likely to be used. + */ + char *f = strchr(argv[1], 'f'); + if (f) { + while (f[1] != '\0') { + *f = f[1]; + f++; + } + *f = 'f'; + } + } +#endif opt = getopt32(argv, "txC:f:Opvk" IF_FEATURE_TAR_CREATE( "ch" ) |