Unzip utility choice decision

[Ben Woods]

On Wednesday, 23 December 2015, Dangling Pointer <
danglingpointer at outlook.com
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','danglingpointer at outlook.com');>> wrote:

> Those options are not contradictory with `pkg install unzip` version. That
> -uoq combination is an advance usage which save us from a race condition.
>

Can you please explain this race condition further, and how the -uoq flags
combined help prevent it when running simultaneous unzip commands?


>
> What I am really saying is:
>
> There is a universally known unzip utility which offers many options and
> then there is FreeBSD version of unzip with less options. That makes no
> sense to me. Why would you want to have a separate unzip utility?
>

This is for the same reason that there is a "universally recognized"
document editor called Microsoft Word. Why would you have a separate Open
Office application? The answer is of course for the more permissive license.

Regards,
Ben


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