> Thanks for reporting this. It is indeed a bug in > coreutils/lib/mkdir-p.c. It can be triggered by other errors too. > This is hard to write a test case for, but I'd like to fix things. > Does the following patch work for you?
> 2005-10-12 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * mkdir-p.c (make_dir_parents): Don't fail if an intervening mkdir > fails due to EROFS, or due to EEXIST or other reasons for that matter. > Problem reported by Eric Blake. > (ENOSYS): Remove; no longer needed. Yes - with this patch on top of coreutils 5.91-CVS, cygwin once again can do 'mkdir -p //server/share/dir', while still failing with EROFS on the intermediate //server. -- Eric Blake -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
