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. >
