In using 'ar' to store empty timestamp files I found that it is sensitive to
member file names of the form "Sxyz*" where x, y, z are hex digits (upper or
lower case). The following shell script is a distillation of the problem and
contains comments concerning it:
#!/bin/bash
#---
--- Additional Comments From psfales at alcatel-lucent dot com 2006-12-11
17:34 ---
Seeing something very similar here, except that the platform is Solaris-x86 2.7.
PSF[lss001]> cat foo.c
main() {}
PSF[lss001]> /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc foo.c -o foo
PSF[lss001]> ls -l foo
-rwxr-xr-x 1 expma
