> That is one of the jobs of the -p switch to mkdir. However, without -p, > mkdir is not allowed to ignore failure like that.
Once I looked in more detail I realized that was the case so I didn't send the patch. It was not how I previously thought about the -p switch though. > Plus I didn't know mkdir could fail with EISDIR. My manpage is not > documenting that case. It's probably legacy nonsense or from some obscure platform that I noticed when checking other implementations [0]. - Randy PS It seems I will need to switch my mailer because I don't think my other patch fixing this issue made it through. Quentin's patches supersede it though. [0]: https://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/libbb/make_directory.c#n99
