Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:35:10 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: undocumented tar --unlink switch Message-ID: <4894ef2e.2NiKL22MfAcdbs27%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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Around line 37 of /usr/src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/add/extract.c there's an invocation of /usr/bin/tar with a --unlink switch, which I don't see mentioned in the tar(1) manpage. Anyone happen to know what this does, or do I need to dig into the code?
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