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Subject: Re: Problems using 'mkdirhier'
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On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 12:05:52PM -0400, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> Most of the above is irrelevant.  This sounds like a bug in mkdirhier, and
> I also seem to recall that it was mentioned on the Cygwin lists before,
> with proposed fixes.  Apparently, the fixes haven't been incorporated in
> 6.8.99.901-1.

On my system, mkdirhier is just a shell script. The program "mkdir"
has an option "-p" that seems to do exactly what mkdirhier does.
Perhaps mkdirhier needs to be retired.

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