Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 05:27:51 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: fs@freebsd.org Subject: mkdir / == odd Message-ID: <20020218132751.GX12136@elvis.mu.org>
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# mkdir /
mkdir: /: Is a directory
shouldn't mkdir get a EEXIST error back?
this patch to mkdir also fixes it.
Index: mkdir.c
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RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/bin/mkdir/mkdir.c,v
retrieving revision 1.23
diff -u -r1.23 mkdir.c
--- mkdir.c 5 Feb 2002 21:55:12 -0000 1.23
+++ mkdir.c 18 Feb 2002 13:28:06 -0000
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@
p = path;
oumask = 0;
retval = 0;
- if (p[0] == '/') /* Skip leading '/'. */
+ while (p[0] == '/') /* Skip leading '/'. */
++p;
for (first = 1, last = 0; !last ; ++p) {
if (p[0] == '\0')
--
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
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