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Date:      Sat, 28 Dec 1996 01:41:08 +0100
From:      Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject:   bin/2304: mkdir -p
Message-ID:  <199612280041.BAA00896@campa.panke.de>
Resent-Message-ID: <199612280130.RAA21002@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         2304
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       mkdir -p
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Dec 27 17:30:01 PST 1996
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Wolfram Schneider
>Organization:
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386
>Environment:
>Description:

`mkdir -p dir' ignores the return value for the last
path component. 


>How-To-Repeat:

$ mkdir -p /var/mkdir/dir; echo $?
mkdir: /var/mkdir: Permission denied
1

ok, but:
$ mkdir -p /var/mkdir; echo $?
0

should be '1' and print 'Permission denied'


>Fix:

The bug exists since revision 1.2 mkdir.c 1994/09/08 author: jkh
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:





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