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Date:      Mon, 6 Jan 1997 21:40:01 -0800 (PST)
From:      asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
To:        freebsd-bugs
Subject:   Re: bin/2304: mkdir -p
Message-ID:  <199701070540.VAA29728@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR bin/2304; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
To: FreeBSD-gnats@freefall.freebsd.org, wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de
Cc:  Subject: Re: bin/2304: mkdir -p
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 21:30:46 -0800 (PST)

  * ok, but:
  * $ mkdir -p /var/mkdir; echo $?
  * 0
  * 
  * should be '1' and print 'Permission denied'
 
 Be careful here though, if we return errors for "directory already
 exists", it's going to break a lot of ports.
 
 We thought this was a "feature". ;)
 
 Satoshi
 



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