Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 08:14:22 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: "W.H.Scholten" <whs@xs4all.nl> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pppd & mkdir diff Message-ID: <20010112081422.U7240@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <3A5EE6B1.41C67EA6@xs4all.nl>; from whs@xs4all.nl on Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 11:12:49AM %2B0000 References: <3A5C843C.794BDF32@xs4all.nl> <20010111132509.J7240@fw.wintelcom.net> <3A5EE6B1.41C67EA6@xs4all.nl>
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* W.H.Scholten <whs@xs4all.nl> [010112 03:13] wrote: > Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > > 1. a pppd patch which sends the pppd messages to stderr. > > > > not sure about this one, I would open a PR about it. > > I'm not sure either :) Maybe everyone else uses gui frontend which reads > pppd's syslog messages or starts pppd as root? Open a PR, someone will get to it. :) > > > Ok, I may be misreading this, but this doesn't fix it really: > > > > mkdir /tmp/a/b/c/d/e/f/s > > > > perhaps if you called "stat" in a loop to on each patch component > > until it failed you'd be able to trim off the directory paths > > one by one. > > I don't think it's useful for mkdir to check which exact part of the > path of the parent directory does exist. The fix just makes mkdir say > the parent directory doesn't exist (instead of the previously wierd "the > dir you wanted me to create doesn't exist" type of error message :). Good point, I'll commit the patch shortly. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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