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RE: Cygwin: mkdir fails on UNC pathnames (FAQ alert)
- To: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: Cygwin: mkdir fails on UNC pathnames (FAQ alert)
- From: "Andrej Borsenkow" <Andrej dot Borsenkow at mow dot siemens dot ru>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 13:02:55 +0400
- Cc: "David Starks-Browning" <starksb at ebi dot ac dot uk>
>
>
> Huh?
>
> Rob
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com]
> >
> >
> > Robert could you add this to the FAQ? GNU mkdir doesn't
> > understand UNC
> > paths.
> >
> > cgf
> >
It is not quite right. You can do 'mkdir //server/share/path' but you cannot
do 'mkdir -p //server/share/path'. The reason is, mkdir -p checks if all
components exist and it fails for the first one, because //server is not a
directory.
-andrej
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