On 5/1/20 1:21 PM, Jonny Grant wrote: > yes, the fix pretty trivial for mkdir as you highlight EISDIR: > stat(), S_ISDIR(sb.st_mode), and set errno to EISDIR or output > strerror(EISDIR)
That would introduce a race condition, and wouldn't behave correctly if some other process changes the destination from a regular file to a directory between the time we call mkdir and the time that we call stat.