On Jan 31,  6:40pm, Gilles.Dauphin@enst.fr (Gilles Dauphin) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: nbpax broken on Solaris?

| > What errno is "Operation not applicable". Is this path component automounted?
| > I don't see this errno listed in mkdir(2) in my solaris 2.8 man page.
| > Fixing this is trivial: just handle the errno in ar_subs.c:domkdir().
| >
| 
| I have the same problem with a path component automounted.
| My work around is to symlink after the automounted dir.

Please try this patch:

christos

Index: ar_subs.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/src/bin/pax/ar_subs.c,v
retrieving revision 1.46
diff -u -u -r1.46 ar_subs.c
--- ar_subs.c	6 Dec 2005 19:11:15 -0000	1.46
+++ ar_subs.c	31 Jan 2006 18:08:38 -0000
@@ -142,6 +142,7 @@
 		return 0;
 	case EEXIST:
 	case EACCES:
+	case ENOSYS:	/* Grr Solaris */
 		error = errno;
 		if (stat(fname, &sb) != -1 && S_ISDIR(sb.st_mode))
 			return 0;