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Re: mkdir -p and network drives
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 09:35:53AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
>Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> writes:
>
>> //MACHINE currently generates ENOENT, whether or not there is a
>> server on the network with that name, and mkdir(2), stat(2), and
>> chdir(2) with an argument of "//MACHINE" fail.
>
>That's certainly a hassle. Let's not worry about going through
>zillions of lines of application code working around that
>incompatibility. Let's get Cygwin fixed instead.
Cygwin has had this (windows) limitation since 1997. I don't think
anyone is in a hurry to fix it. It isn't trivial to do. The
main thing that seems to be affected is "mkdir -p" so if we just
have to keep a localized patch for mkdir sitting around it seems
like that is our best option.
cgf
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