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Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 11:28:48 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Cc: klaus DOT berndl AT sdm DOT de
Subject: Re: Bug in mkdir ?
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In-Reply-To: <20010127112449.E31088@redhat.com>; from cgf@redhat.com on Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 11:24:49AM -0500

On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 11:24:49AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 05:03:11PM +0100, klaus DOT berndl AT sdm DOT de wrote:
>>Hello,
>>
>>i´m using mkdir (GNU Fileutils 4.0) of the latest cygwin and it seems that the -p option
>>is not correct handled with all path-styles:
>>   mkdir -p <driveletter>:/any/path/to/a/new/dir
>>and
>>   mkdir -p /cygdrive/<driveletter>/any/path/to/a/new/dir 
>>are working correct. But if i write
>>   mkdir -p //<driveletter>/any/path/to/a/new/dir 
>>then the file is not created if it doesn´t exists (wrong), if it exists already
>>nothing is done (correct).
>>
>>I know that this pathstyle (//driveletter>/...) is somehow "deprecated" but IMHO
>>nevertheless it should be handled correct by every tools at least until this style is officially
>>not supported.
>
>I really can't get too excited about getting an obscure use of a
>deprecated feature working.
>
>Perhaps you would like to submit a patch if this is important to you.

Btw, this is apparently a problem with "mkdir", not cygwin.

cgf

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