X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 15:02:30 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin-1.5.19-2: mkdir returns inconsistent errno Message-ID: <20060128140230.GF15572@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <012620061525.1038.43D8EA05000B44680000040E22007358340A050E040D0C079D0A@comcast.net> <81b0412b0601260821p2a0525dane12307a43e6897f1@mail.gmail.com> <20060127182655.GA6169@steel.home> <43DA9F10.8090804@byu.net> <20060128120637.GA5948@steel.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060128120637.GA5948@steel.home> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Jan 28 13:06, Alex Riesen wrote: > Which still wont make a portable alternative any time soon. > I'll go with stat(2), including all the problems it has. > Still, it'd be nice of cygwin to follow linux behaviour here. Since Linux compatibility is a major goal for us, I applied a change to Cygwin's mkdir, so that errno is set to EEXIST in all cases where the file already exists, regardless of the error returned by the underlying filesystem. Please try the next developer's snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ HTH, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/