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From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 10:01:43 -0500
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Subject: Re: fileutils mkdir gotcha
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> Or, 
> better yet, make sure /dev/env without anything else gets treated as a 
> normal file/directory, i.e. in this case, /dev/env will actually be 
> created.
> 

Here's the patch I had in mind for putpath.c:

*** djgpp/src/libc/dos/io/putpath.c.orig	Thu Jun  3 13:27:34 1999
--- djgpp/src/libc/dos/io/putpath.c	Sun Feb 20 09:56:26 2000
*************** _put_path2(const char *path, int offset)
*** 140,147 ****
          o--;
        path = p;
      }
-     else if (p[5])
-       path = p + 5;
    }
  
    /* collapse multiple slashes to a single slash */
--- 140,145 ----

The deleted code turns '/dev/unrecognized' into 'unrecognized'. Deleting 
this code lets '/dev/unrecognized' stay as-is just like other files/directories.