[Bug-tar] TARing xf the same archive twice will fail if there are read-only files

[Federico Demi]

Hi folks,

is this a bug or a feature? (AFAIK unix tar behaves in a different way)

Description

1\ I typed this:
        c:\tmp> tar -xf  mprjsrc.tar
    and everything was fine: a subtree with all my sources
    was created.

2\ I typed again this (without removing the extracted files):
        c:\tmp> tar -xf  mprjsrc.tar
    and ended up with a series of error msgs like this one:
    "tar: src.unix/osdep1.c: Could not create file: Permission denied"

3\ Extra info
3.1\ the tar file was created on a unix box
3.2\ all the files are read-only

Is there a way to force overwrite the target files?
TIA,
F.
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