A colleague reports about "mkdir -p" in coreutils-5.90:
On Solaris, the /usr/local/bin/mkdir has a problem when used with the
-p option:
mkdir -p ~/.mozilla/firefox
mkdir: cannot create directory `/u/class': Read-only file system
This is done the first time that a user runs firefox. Unfortunately,
this prevents firefox from starting.
This isn't the case with /usr/bin/mkdir.
Here's a further demo:
sunfire% mkdir -p ~/.mozilla/frobnitz
mkdir: cannot create directory `/u/guest': Read-only file system
sunfire% touch foo
# proves that filesystem is writable
sunfire% touch ~/.mozilla/foo
# proves that directory is writable
sunfire% mkdir -p ~/.mozilla/frobnitz
mkdir: cannot create directory `/u/guest': Read-only file system
# still fails
sunfire% mkdir ~/.mozilla/frobnitz
# works without -p
In these tests, the filesystem in question is automounted from a
Sun Solaris 8 fileserver to a Sun Solaris 9 client.
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