Subject: Re: Bug in mkdir ?
From: Christopher Faylor <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 11:24:49 -0500

On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 05:03:11PM +0100, [email-masked] wrote:
>Hello,
>
>i´m using mkdir (GNU Fileutils 4.0) of the latest cygwin and it seems that the -p option
>is not correct handled with all path-styles:
>   mkdir -p <driveletter>:/any/path/to/a/new/dir
>and
>   mkdir -p /cygdrive/<driveletter>/any/path/to/a/new/dir 
>are working correct. But if i write
>   mkdir -p //<driveletter>/any/path/to/a/new/dir 
>then the file is not created if it doesn´t exists (wrong), if it exists already
>nothing is done (correct).
>
>I know that this pathstyle (//driveletter>/...) is somehow "deprecated" but IMHO
>nevertheless it should be handled correct by every tools at least until this style is officially
>not supported.

I really can't get too excited about getting an obscure use of a
deprecated feature working.

Perhaps you would like to submit a patch if this is important to you.

cgf

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