AIX 5.3: access existing file gives ENOENT

[Gerard H. Pille]

I ran truss on a running java program, and noticed that the access
system call was returning "Err#2 ENOENT" for existing files, files
that were succesfully "accessed" earlier in the same program, and
later on.

Is there any reasonable explanation for this behaviour?

In the truss output I find: (preceded by line-numbers)

+552 access("/softih/fatwire/Shared/elements/Roularta/Query/
Template/Sql/2_0.jsp", 04) = 0
+563 access("/softih/fatwire/Shared/elements/Roularta/Query/
Template/Sql/2_0.jsp", 04) = 0
+576 access("/softih/fatwire/Shared/elements/Roularta/Query/
Template/Sql/2_0.jsp", 04) = 1
+607 access("/softih/fatwire/Shared/elements/Roularta/Query/
Template/Sql/2_0.jsp", 04) = 0
+1234 access("/softih/fatwire/Shared/elements/Roularta/Query/
Template/Sql/2_0.jsp", 04) = 66
+1384 access("/softih/fatwire/Shared/elements/Roularta/Query/
Template/Sql/2_0.jsp", 04) Err#2 ENOENT
+1452 access("/softih/fatwire/Shared/elements/Roularta/Query/
Template/Sql/2_0.jsp", 04) = 0

The files are located on:
/dev/lv_soft_IH /softih jfs2 Aug 06 06:37
rw,log=INLINE

Any ideas are very well come,

Gerard