cygwin-1.5.19-2: mkdir returns inconsistent errno

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jan 28 13:06, Alex Riesen wrote:
> Which still wont make a portable alternative any time soon.
> I'll go with stat(2), including all the problems it has.
> Still, it'd be nice of cygwin to follow linux behaviour here.

Since Linux compatibility is a major goal for us, I applied a change to
Cygwin's mkdir, so that errno is set to EEXIST in all cases where the
file already exists, regardless of the error returned by the underlying
filesystem.  Please try the next developer's snapshot from
http://cygwin.com/snapshots/


HTH,
Corinna

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