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Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 04:31:49 -0800
From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/mkdir mkdir.c
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* Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> [010114 04:18] wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 04:08:51AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > alfred      2001/01/14 04:08:51 PST
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     bin/mkdir            mkdir.c 
> >   Log:
> >   Special case the error reporting when errno is ENOTDIR or ENOENT.
> >   
> >   This makes "mkdir /nonexistant/foo" complain that /nonexistant
> >   doesn't exist rather than /nonexistant/foo which doesn't make much
> >   sense.
> >   
> >   Submitted (in a different form) by: W.H.Scholten <whs@xs4all.nl>
> >   
> >   Revision  Changes    Path
> >   1.20      +6 -2      src/bin/mkdir/mkdir.c
> 
> How about the attached program implementing and demonstrating a new
> direxname() function, which uses dirname()'s static buffer to extract
> the longest existing path component of the specified dirname?
> mkdir(1) could report this in case of error (something like
> "cannot create /path/exists/nonex/foo/bar, nonexisting path components
>  after /path/exists"

I like this, you just have to be careful not to spam over errno with your
stat(2) results.  If you have the time I'd apply it to mkdir, I'm not
'MAINTAINER', so have at it. :)

-Alfred


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