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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc: fs@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: mkdir / == odd
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* Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> [020218 10:27] wrote:
> 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?

I get the same problem.  In fact that's what triggered it
in the first place.

% mkdir -p //usr/X11R6/bin
mkdir: /: Is a directory.
%

bah!

-Alfred

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