Stephen Leaf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Typo: > mkdir: cannot create directory `a': File exists > > Shouldn't it say 'Directory exists'?
Ideally, that's what it would say when `a' is a directory. What it means is that the existence of some `file system object' caused mkdir to fail. Sometimes we use `file' that way. When the mkdir syscall fails, it sets errno to EEXIST, which (via strerror) is usually rendered in English as `File exists'. _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils
