On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 11:59:50AM -0400, Oleg Drokin wrote: > "If path names a symbolic link, mkdir() shall fail and set errno to [EEXIST]." > > This sounds pretty straightforward to me, no? > Since it does not matter that we do not have write permissions here, because > the name already exists.
When more than one condition applies, we have every right to return any of them. POSIX does *NOT* specify the order of checks. Never had.
