Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20050502232204.00b52180@incoming.verizon.net> X-Sender: phumblet@incoming.verizon.net Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 23:22:04 -0400 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Pierre A. Humblet" Subject: mkdir -p and network drives Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" According to the Cygwin Faq, ********* Why doesn't `mkdir -p' work on a network share? Unfortunately, you cannot do something like this: bash$ mkdir -p //MACHINE/Share/path/to/new/dir mkdir: cannot create directory `//MACHINE': No such file or directory This is because mkdir checks for the existence of each directory on the path, creating them as necessary. Since `//MACHINE' is not a directory (you can't cd to it either), mkdir tries to create it, and fails. ********** This behavior would be fine with me, but the latest mkdir (GNU coreutils) 5.3.0 creates /MACHINE/Share/path/to/new/dir and returns 0 Pierre -- 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/