Re: mkdirhier fails on Ubuntu Hardy i686 with dash shell

2009-11-02 Thread Simon Marlow
On 25/10/2009 19:34, Ian Lynagh wrote: On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:49:44PM -0600, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote: Replacing the contents of mkdirhier and mkdirhier.sh with "mkdir -p $*" works-around the problem. Does anyone know why we don't just call "mkdir -p" normally? Are there portability pro

Re: mkdirhier fails on Ubuntu Hardy i686 with dash shell

2009-10-25 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:49:44PM -0600, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote: > > Replacing the contents of mkdirhier and mkdirhier.sh with "mkdir -p $*" > works-around the problem. Does anyone know why we don't just call "mkdir -p" normally? Are there portability problems with it? Thanks Ian