Re: Problems with mkdir under 1.7

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On May 28 11:33, Dave Hylands wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've discovered a problem with mkdir under 1.7.x that worked fine under 1.5.x.
> 
> I'm using 1.7.5-1 (I updated to the latest this morning).
> 
> I'm having a problem with mkdir -p when using DFS shares.
> 
> Assume dir exists and newdir doesn't.
> Assume computername is the UNC name of a real computer.
> Assume dfs-name is the UNC name of DFS "virtual" computer - not sure
> what the real terminology is.
> 
> The first 3 all work fine.
> mkdir //computername/sharename/dir/newdir
> mkdir -p //computername/sharename/dir/newdir
> mkdir //dfs-name/dfs-share/dir/newdir
> 
> This one fails:
> mkdir -p //dfs-name/dfs-share/dir/newdir
> mkdir: cannot create directory '//dfs-name': No such file or directory
> 
> This used to work fine under 1.5.x, so I assume it's a new bug.

I don't know.  I created two DFS namespaces on my 2008 server machine,
one domain namespace, one standalone namespace, and I can do the
aforementioned mkdir -p just fine in both namespaces.


Corinna

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