According to the Cygwin Faq, ********* Why doesn't `mkdir -p' work on a network share? Unfortunately, you cannot do something like this:
bash$ mkdir -p //MACHINE/Share/path/to/new/dir mkdir: cannot create directory `//MACHINE': No such file or directory This is because mkdir checks for the existence of each directory on the path, creating them as necessary. Since `//MACHINE' is not a directory (you can't cd to it either), mkdir tries to create it, and fails. ********** This behavior would be fine with me, but the latest mkdir (GNU coreutils) 5.3.0 creates /MACHINE/Share/path/to/new/dir and returns 0 Pierre -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/