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-rw-r--r--archival/tar.c27
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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" )