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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."


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