On 01/22/2011 02:53 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > This sounds strange..... openat() has been introduced in August 2000 with a > Solaris 9 beta. Could you explain the problem please?
The Solaris 9 openat functions uniformly mishandle trailing slash in file names. Gnulib (and therefore tar) works around the bug, though to be honest I no longer remember the details.
