On 07/25/2012 07:50 AM, Jez Wain wrote: > here's the truss… Thanks. It appears that the code commented "If O_NOFOLLOW is needed but does not work, check for a symlink separately." in extract.c is not effective, that is, fstatat is not being invoked there. Can you see why this is so? Perhaps you can debug tar with GDB. Or perhaps you can send the output of the command
grep -r O_NOFOLLOW /usr/include as one possibility is that O_NOFOLLOW is defined to some nonzero value on AIX but does not in fact work.
