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From: Peter Rehley <peter AT rehley DOT net>
Subject: Question about mkdir and windows paths
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:36:02 -0800
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Hi,

I'm using mkdir with a windows path, and it's not working the way I 
expect.  When I type the following command

mkdir -p C:\\Cygwin\\tmp\hello; # cygwin and tmp already exist

the directory is created.

If I try the following

rm -rf C:\\Cygwin\\tmp\\hello
mkdir -p C:\\Cygwin\\tmp\\hello\\goodbye

I get
mkdir : cannot create directory `C:\\MontaVista\\tmp\\hello\\goodbye': 
No such file or directory

Is this the except behavior of mkdir or is there a bug here?  I've 
check the source and noticed that the make_path function only looks for 
'/'

The source I've check is coreutils-5.2-1 and coreutils-5.3-0.  Both are 
doing the same thing.

Thanks,
Peter
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