Problem with A/UX 2.0's tar and symbolic links.

Peter A. Krauss pak at regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de
Wed Oct 17 00:04:52 AEST 1990


chn at lanl.gov (Charles Neil) writes:

>Has anyone else run into this problem?  My configuration
>is A/UX 2.0 on a IIfx.  If I have a directory which contains,
>among all of its subdirectories, a total of more than 27 
>symbolic links, then tar will dump core when it encounters the
>28th link during the course of archiving the directory.

Same problem with A/UX 2.0 on a IIx machine...
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