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Re: mkdir -p and EROFS
- From: ericblake at comcast dot net (Eric Blake)
- To: Paul Eggert <eggert at CS dot UCLA dot EDU>
- Cc: bug-coreutils at gnu dot org, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 21:48:30 +0000
- Subject: Re: mkdir -p and EROFS
> Thanks for reporting this. It is indeed a bug in
> coreutils/lib/mkdir-p.c. It can be triggered by other errors too.
> This is hard to write a test case for, but I'd like to fix things.
> Does the following patch work for you?
> 2005-10-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
>
> * mkdir-p.c (make_dir_parents): Don't fail if an intervening mkdir
> fails due to EROFS, or due to EEXIST or other reasons for that matter.
> Problem reported by Eric Blake.
> (ENOSYS): Remove; no longer needed.
Yes - with this patch on top of coreutils 5.91-CVS, cygwin once
again can do 'mkdir -p //server/share/dir', while still failing with
EROFS on the intermediate //server.
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Eric Blake
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