----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Eggert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Eric Blake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Pierre A. Humblet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <cygwin@cygwin.com>; <bug-coreutils@gnu.org> Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 12:35 PM Subject: Re: mkdir -p and network drives
> Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > //MACHINE currently generates ENOENT, whether or not there is a > > server on the network with that name, and mkdir(2), stat(2), and > > chdir(2) with an argument of "//MACHINE" fail. > > That's certainly a hassle. Let's not worry about going through > zillions of lines of application code working around that > incompatibility. Let's get Cygwin fixed instead. The minimum required seems to be to have chdir(2) and stat(2) for // and //MACHINE. Initially stat could report the permissions as x only. That seems very easy if we don't check the existence of MACHINE. (After all, any MACHINE could be there. Failures would occur only when trying to access). In a later phase the permissions could be rx, in which case readdir(2) should work and network scanning becomes necessary. Pierre _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
