Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 13:38:48 +0100 Message-ID: <3874-Thu21Jun2001133848+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> X-Mailer: emacs 20.7.1 (via feedmail 9-beta-7 I); VM 6.92 under Emacs 20.7.1 From: David Starks-Browning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Cygwin: mkdir fails on UNC pathnames (FAQ alert) In-Reply-To: <002701c0fa30$f5b18540$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> References: <002701c0fa30$f5b18540$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> On Thursday 21 Jun 01, Andrej Borsenkow writes: > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com] > > > > > > 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. Oh, I see. In that case, it's already in the FAQ: "Why doesn't `mkdir -p' work on a network share?" Nice try, Jim. By the way, your shoe's untied! Doh! David -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple