On 5/2/20 3:41 PM, Jonny Grant wrote:
> Is a more accurate strerror considered unreliable?
>
> Current:
> mkdir: cannot create directory ‘test’: File exists
>
> Proposed:
> mkdir: cannot create directory ‘test’: Is a directory
I don't understand this comment. As I understand it you're proposing
On 02/05/2020 20:47, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 5/2/20 6:26 AM, Jonny Grant wrote:
If developers have race conditions in their shell scripts
I've personally fixed a bug in the GNU mkdir command that was triggered by such
races. Core utilities should be reliable even when these races are
On 5/2/20 6:26 AM, Jonny Grant wrote:
> If developers have race conditions in their shell scripts
I've personally fixed a bug in the GNU mkdir command that was triggered by such
races. Core utilities should be reliable even when these races are happening.
On 01/05/2020 21:32, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 5/1/20 1:21 PM, Jonny Grant wrote:
yes, the fix pretty trivial for mkdir as you highlight EISDIR:
stat(), S_ISDIR(sb.st_mode), and set errno to EISDIR or output strerror(EISDIR)
That would introduce a race condition, and wouldn't behave correctly
