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Cc: Dave Korn <dave DOT korn AT artimi 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: Fri, 06 May 2005 11:13:56 -0700
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.61.0505051659550.9005@slinky.cs.nyu.edu> (Igor Pechtchanski's message of "Thu, 5 May 2005 17:03:03 -0400 (EDT)")
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Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> writes:

> There's always Pierre's solution of doing minimal support for stat()ing
> '//' and '//MACHINE', though...

Yes, that's the basic idea.  That's the only thing that makes sense here.

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