We recently discovered that tar under HP-UX 9.03 (with a what string
of 72.14) is having trouble reading directories in AFS. This was
not a problem with HP-UX 9.01. The symptom is that created archive
files are extremely large, and contain files from the archived
directories many times (up to 14 times in one case).
I suspect it's a seek bug, since if it were a read bug, nothing would work.
Is it only directories containing subdirectories that have this problem?
Do other programs that descend a directory tree, like 'find' for example,
exhibit the same problem?
Most versions of 'tar' use telldir/seekdir to remember where they are as
they descend the directory tree. Very old versions may use lseek. Seeking
in directories is a tricky business and it's possible there is some bug or
interaction between HP/UX and afs.
