tar: --dereference consistency

[chaz/tar] / src / tar.c

diff --git a/src/tar.c b/src/tar.c
index 6fd117c636702f564511be0d3c7c4876b849efdb..d80a10f03613e46b8c51430b6183ff8ff800cd82 100644 (file)
--- a/src/tar.c
+++ b/src/tar.c
@@ -1014,7 +1014,7 @@ get_date_or_file (struct tar_args *args, const char *option,
       || *str == '.')
     {
       struct stat st;
-      if (deref_stat (dereference_option, str, &st) != 0)
+      if (stat (str, &st) != 0)
        {
          stat_error (str);
          USAGE_ERROR ((0, 0, _("Date sample file not found")));