Thanks for the explanation and the quick response!

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Paul Eggert <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks, that's due to a known deficiency in older versions of AIX;
> where getcwd fails if an ancestor directory isn't readable, and there
> is no implementation of the openat functions.  The problem should be
> fixed in AIX 7.  Most likely you don't need to worry about this
> anyway, as you probably don't run 'tar' in directories whose
> ancestors are not readable.
>

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