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> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 19:50:29 +0300
> From: Ozkan Sezer <sezeroz AT gmail DOT com>
> 
> On 4/22/14, Ozkan Sezer <sezeroz AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> > On 4/22/14, Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT gnu DOT org> wrote:
> [...]
> > OK, leaving things to you guys.
> >
> 
> PING:
> 
> If there is still interest in this

The interest never dwindled, thanks for persevering.

> I've been using the two patches inlined below (also attached) for
> some time and they work well for me.
> 
> 
> * mkdir.c: replace access() call with _chmod(). this loses the extra
> _fixpath()+remote rootdir check done by access(), but it shortens
> things by not pulling in extra dependencies.

What does this set errno to when the argument is "C:/" or some other
root directory?

> --- /dev/null
> +++ src/libc/posix/sys/stat/statbits.c	24 Apr 2014 07:51:10 -0000

I really don't see why a single short variable should have its own
source file.  I think I suggested to add the variable to crt1.c.
Could you please do that instead?

Thanks.