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Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 10:26:39 -0800
From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
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Subject: Re: mkdir / == odd
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Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> 
> # mkdir /
> mkdir: /: Is a directory

[ ... patch to special case "//" ... ]

Multiple leading slashes are special to POSIX.  Could you
maybe add a "-p" to the mkdir argument list, instead?

-- Terry

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