Cygwin: mkdir fails on UNC pathnames (FAQ alert)

Andrej Borsenkow Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru
Thu Jun 21 02:03:00 GMT 2001


>
>
> Huh?
>
> Rob
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Christopher Faylor [ mailto:cgf@redhat.com ]
> >
> >
> > Robert could you add this to the FAQ?  GNU mkdir doesn't
> > understand UNC
> > paths.
> >
> > cgf
> >

It is not quite right. You can do 'mkdir //server/share/path' but you cannot
do 'mkdir -p //server/share/path'. The reason is, mkdir -p checks if all
components exist and it fails for the first one, because //server is not a
directory.

-andrej


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