tar 1.1.3 and Solaris

[Leena Heino]

In some cases gnu tar in Solaris will output an error message:
Could not create file: Permission denied

This error message is quite missleading as file is indeed created ok.

This seems to happen iff:
- System is Solaris
- Filesystem is Solaris UFS
- File to be created has permission 0444 in archive
- Gnu tar is compiled in Solaris 2.6

It does not matter wheter p-option is given or not.

If you want to test this quite strange feature then try untarring a
mysql-3.23.39.tar.gz package in Solaris  with gnu tar 1.13 that is
compiled in Solaris 2.6.

Tested on Solaris(sparc) versions 2.6 and 8.
Gnu tar version: 1.13

  -- Leena Heino (address@hidden)