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#506 mkdir -p is broken

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Earnie Boyd
MSYS (75)
2004-03-17
2004-02-19
Wayne Scott
No

$ mkdir -p A/A/A/A
mkdir: cannot create directory `A/A/A/A': No such
file or directory
$ mkdir A
mkdir: cannot create directory `A': File exists
$ mkdir A/A
$ mkdir A/A/A
$ mkdir A/A/A/A

What is up with that? It creates 'A' and then fails.

This is MSYS 1.0.10-rc4

-Wayne

Discussion

  • Wayne Scott

    Wayne Scott - 2004-02-19

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    This is likely the same bug a #855127

    It only files if all the directories are the same name.

    mkdir -p A/B/C/D/E

    works fine.

    How do I link bugs?

     

  • Wayne Scott

    Wayne Scott - 2004-03-10

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    A patch to fix this is attached

     

  • Wayne Scott

    Wayne Scott - 2004-03-10

    remove caching from normalize_posix_path()

     
    path.cc.diffs

  • alan johnson

    alan johnson - 2004-03-17

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    thanks for patch

     

  • Wayne Scott

    Wayne Scott - 2004-03-17
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  • Wayne Scott

    Wayne Scott - 2004-03-17

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    This should be fixed in 1.0.10