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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:13:26 -0700
From: David Rothenberger <daveroth@acm.org>
Subject: Re: please test: coreutils-5.90-2
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On 10/8/2005 7:29 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net> writes:
> My bug in 'mkdir -p' in 5.90-1 proved immensely annoying, crippling such things
> as attempting to build the cygwin dll from CVS.  So I have uploaded 5.90-2.

I'm having another problem with 'mkdir -p' in 5.90-2.

I have a script that attempts to do "mkdir -p c:/dir1/dir2/dir3". This 
started failing with a permission denied error for c:/.

I eventually discovered that it also fails using unix paths if the 
absolute path provided to mkdir starts at the root of a Windows drive. 
Here's a little example:

% mkdir /tmp/foo
% mount e:\\ /tmp/foo
% mkdir -p /tmp/foo/bar
mkdir: cannot create directory `/tmp/foo': Permission denied
% mkdir /tmp/foo/bar

(e: is a real drive on my system.)

I have my cygdrive prefix set to '/'. Commands like "mkdir -p /c/foo" 
also failed even though "mkdir /c/foo" succeeded.

This is with a home-built CVS DLL corresponding to the 20051003 snapshot.

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