coreutils 5.97; mkdir -p; mkdir: cannot create directory `name': File exists

[mwoehlke]

Rolf Campbell wrote:
> I believe there is a race-condition in "mkdir -p".  Specifically, if the 
> directory does not exist *yet* when stat is called on line #98 of 
> "coreutils-5.97/lib/mkdir-p.c", but the directory *does* exist by the 
> time line #190 of the same file calls mkdir(), then the program will 
> error with "File exists".
> 
> I hit this occasionally when doing parallel builds.

The coreutils list would be a nice place to send this, unless you have 
reason to believe that only Cygwin is affected?

-- 
Matthew
'$ time make world' -> real 5d:14h:37m:5.291s  user 0m:0.000s  sys 
4d:2h:14m:43.712s


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