* W.H.Scholten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010112 03:13] wrote:
> Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>
> > > 1. a pppd patch which sends the pppd messages to stderr.
> >
> > not sure about this one, I would open a PR about it.
>
> I'm not sure either :) Maybe everyone else uses gui frontend which reads
> pppd's syslog messages or starts pppd as root?
Open a PR, someone will get to it. :)
>
> > Ok, I may be misreading this, but this doesn't fix it really:
> >
> > mkdir /tmp/a/b/c/d/e/f/s
> >
> > perhaps if you called "stat" in a loop to on each patch component
> > until it failed you'd be able to trim off the directory paths
> > one by one.
>
> I don't think it's useful for mkdir to check which exact part of the
> path of the parent directory does exist. The fix just makes mkdir say
> the parent directory doesn't exist (instead of the previously wierd "the
> dir you wanted me to create doesn't exist" type of error message :).
Good point, I'll commit the patch shortly.
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