Subject: RE: Cygwin: mkdir fails on UNC pathnames (FAQ alert)
From: "Andrej Borsenkow" <[email-masked]>
To: "Robert Collins" <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>
Cc: "David Starks-Browning" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 13:02:55 +0400

>
>
> Huh?
>
> Rob
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[email-masked]]
> >
> >
> > 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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