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To: Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net>
Cc: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre DOT Humblet AT ieee DOT org>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com,
   bug-coreutils AT gnu DOT org
Subject: Re: mkdir -p and network drives
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From: Paul Eggert <eggert AT CS DOT UCLA DOT EDU>
Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 09:35:53 -0700
In-Reply-To: <427A147D.2030109@byu.net> (Eric Blake's message of "Thu, 05 May 2005 06:41:33 -0600")
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Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net> writes:

> //MACHINE currently generates ENOENT, whether or not there is a
> server on the network with that name, and mkdir(2), stat(2), and
> chdir(2) with an argument of "//MACHINE" fail.

That's certainly a hassle.  Let's not worry about going through
zillions of lines of application code working around that
incompatibility.  Let's get Cygwin fixed instead.

> By the way, the coreutils anon CVS mirror syncronization
> appears to be hung again,

It'll probably get resynced in a week or so.  The CVS administrator is
on vacation.  In theory you can recover the current state by applying
all the patches I've sent out via bug-coreutils.

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