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Date:      Thu, 6 Jul 1995 11:28:28 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        hohmuth@inf.tu-dresden.de
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bin/594: "mkdir -p some/path/" fails to create last path component when path has trailing slash
Message-ID:  <199507060128.LAA21203@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>	"mkdir -p some/path/" fails to create last path component when
>	path has trailing slash

Note that ordinary mkdir(1) and mkdir(2) also fail to create "foo/"
although POSIX specifies that paths to directories may have an optional
trailing slash.  I had this fixed in 1.1.5.  There is an old PR about it.

mkdir -p "foo/" has the additional bug that it exits with status 0 after
failing to create "foo/".

Bruce



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