From:	eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: mkdir and /dev/env/
Date:	30 May 2000 11:06:26 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii (eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il) wrote:

: On Tue, 30 May 2000, Gisle Vanem wrote:

: > With "set YAFC=\yafc", this code fails:
: > 
: > if (mkdir ("/dev/env/YAFC", S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR|S_IXUSR) != 0) 
: >   perror("");
: > 
: > The mode is '0400|0200|0100' = 0700 (octal)
: > 
: > Is that supposed to work?

Just an observation in case you didn't notice: note that the
environment variable's value is "\yafc" (the backslash!).

: Yes, it is supposed to work.

Yes, I think so too.


Right,

							MartinS

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