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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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