mkdir -p and network drives

[Pierre A. Humblet]

According to the Cygwin Faq,

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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. 
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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




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