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Question about mkdir and windows paths
- From: Peter Rehley <peter at rehley dot net>
- To: Cygwin List' <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:36:02 -0800
- Subject: Question about mkdir and windows paths
Hi,
I'm using mkdir with a windows path, and it's not working the way I
expect. When I type the following command
mkdir -p C:\\Cygwin\\tmp\hello; # cygwin and tmp already exist
the directory is created.
If I try the following
rm -rf C:\\Cygwin\\tmp\\hello
mkdir -p C:\\Cygwin\\tmp\\hello\\goodbye
I get
mkdir : cannot create directory `C:\\MontaVista\\tmp\\hello\\goodbye':
No such file or directory
Is this the except behavior of mkdir or is there a bug here? I've
check the source and noticed that the make_path function only looks for
'/'
The source I've check is coreutils-5.2-1 and coreutils-5.3-0. Both are
doing the same thing.
Thanks,
Peter
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