Date:	Sun, 20 Feb 2000 11:59:00 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	"Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: fileutils mkdir gotcha
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On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Mark E. wrote:

> I would suggest modifying 'mkdir.c' check the result of _put_path for 
> '/dev' and '/dev/env' and set errno to EEXIST (and return -1) for these 
> two cases.

I think /dev should be left alone.

> This would in turn require a small change to _put_path2 to  
> prevent '/dev/env' from turning into 'env' like it currently does.

Please send in a patch for preventing /dev/env from being created.

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