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According to Paul Eggert on 10/12/2005 3:24 PM:
> 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 fol
On Oct 13 00:02, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Christopher Faylor writes:
> > I'm just wondering if there is some kind of official coreutils policy
> > here.
>
> Not for coreutils itself, no. However, the GNU coding standards make
> it clear that porting to systems like Cygwin is lower priority for the
>
Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
>>IMHO, it is the kernel's job to provide an informative and, above all,
>>compatible-with-most-others errno value, unless there is a very
>>good reason. The small extra expense of an lstat call (*but only upon
>>failure with errno == EROFS*) doesn
Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Blake) writes:
>> The algorithm change between 5.3.0 and 5.90 in lib/mkdir-p.c to
>> try mkdir() first instead of stat(), and key off of EEXIST, breaks
>> when mkdir() fails with EROFS on an intermediate directory when
>> the writable
Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Are there `real' environments that use a set-up like you describe,
> with a writable file system mounted inside a read-only one?
I vaguely recall doing this myself a while back, on a Solaris box. I
made /usr read-only, but /usr/tmp was a writeable files
> 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
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Blake) writes:
> The algorithm change between 5.3.0 and 5.90 in lib/mkdir-p.c to
> try mkdir() first instead of stat(), and key off of EEXIST, breaks
> when mkdir() fails with EROFS on an intermediate directory when
> the writable directory has been mounted inside a read-on
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Blake) wrote:
> > The algorithm change between 5.3.0 and 5.90 in lib/mkdir-p.c to
> > try mkdir() first instead of stat(), and key off of EEXIST, breaks
> > when mkdir() fails with EROFS on an intermediate directory when
> > the writable directory has been mounted inside a
On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 07:45:40PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Blake) wrote:
>> The algorithm change between 5.3.0 and 5.90 in lib/mkdir-p.c to
>> try mkdir() first instead of stat(), and key off of EEXIST, breaks
>> when mkdir() fails with EROFS on an intermediate directory
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Blake) wrote:
> The algorithm change between 5.3.0 and 5.90 in lib/mkdir-p.c to
> try mkdir() first instead of stat(), and key off of EEXIST, breaks
> when mkdir() fails with EROFS on an intermediate directory when
> the writable directory has been mounted inside a read-only
The algorithm change between 5.3.0 and 5.90 in lib/mkdir-p.c to
try mkdir() first instead of stat(), and key off of EEXIST, breaks
when mkdir() fails with EROFS on an intermediate directory when
the writable directory has been mounted inside a read-only tree.
For example, on cygwin:
$ mkdir -p //E
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