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Paul Eggert <eggert AT CS DOT UCLA DOT EDU> wrote: > ericblake AT comcast DOT net (Eric Blake) writes: >> The algorithm change between 5.3.0 and 5.90 in lib/mkdir-p.c to >> try mkdir() first instead of stat(), and key off of EEXIST, breaks >> when mkdir() fails with EROFS on an intermediate directory when >> the writable directory has been mounted inside a read-only tree. > > 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? > > Jim, if this works for Eric, is it OK to install this patch at this late > date? Nice patch. This seems safe enough, so yes, please apply. Thanks! > 2005-10-12 Paul Eggert <eggert AT cs DOT ucla DOT 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. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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