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Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 11:24:49 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Cc: klaus.berndl@sdm.de
Subject: Re: Bug in mkdir ?
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In-Reply-To: <C9A98ED35114D31197D000805FEA668E027B18C6@mucexch.muc.sdm.de>; from klaus.berndl@sdm.de on Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 05:03:11PM +0100

On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 05:03:11PM +0100, klaus.berndl@sdm.de wrote:
>Hello,
>
>i´m using mkdir (GNU Fileutils 4.0) of the latest cygwin and it seems that the -p option
>is not correct handled with all path-styles:
>   mkdir -p <driveletter>:/any/path/to/a/new/dir
>and
>   mkdir -p /cygdrive/<driveletter>/any/path/to/a/new/dir 
>are working correct. But if i write
>   mkdir -p //<driveletter>/any/path/to/a/new/dir 
>then the file is not created if it doesn´t exists (wrong), if it exists already
>nothing is done (correct).
>
>I know that this pathstyle (//driveletter>/...) is somehow "deprecated" but IMHO
>nevertheless it should be handled correct by every tools at least until this style is officially
>not supported.

I really can't get too excited about getting an obscure use of a
deprecated feature working.

Perhaps you would like to submit a patch if this is important to you.

cgf

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