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To: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>, <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Cc: "David Starks-Browning" <starksb@ebi.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: Cygwin: mkdir fails on UNC pathnames (FAQ alert)
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 13:02:55 +0400
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>
>
> Huh?
>
> Rob
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com]
> >
> >
> > Robert could you add this to the FAQ?  GNU mkdir doesn't
> > understand UNC
> > paths.
> >
> > cgf
> >

It is not quite right. You can do 'mkdir //server/share/path' but you cannot
do 'mkdir -p //server/share/path'. The reason is, mkdir -p checks if all
components exist and it fails for the first one, because //server is not a
directory.

-andrej


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