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Re: mkdir -p and network drives
From: |
Igor Pechtchanski |
Subject: |
Re: mkdir -p and network drives |
Date: |
Thu, 5 May 2005 13:19:51 -0400 (EDT) |
On Thu, 5 May 2005, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > //MACHINE currently generates ENOENT, whether or not there is a
> > server on the network with that name, and mkdir(2), stat(2), and
> > chdir(2) with an argument of "//MACHINE" fail.
>
> That's certainly a hassle. Let's not worry about going through
> zillions of lines of application code working around that
> incompatibility. Let's get Cygwin fixed instead.
One potential problem is that on Windows, using NetShareEnum when checking
the path will mean that every time someone does "mkdir -p", the command
will have to wait until all network shares are examined. This could
result in quite a bit of a delay, to say the least...
Igor
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- Re: mkdir -p and network drives, Eric Blake, 2005/05/03
- Re: mkdir -p and network drives, Paul Eggert, 2005/05/05
- Re: mkdir -p and network drives, Eric Blake, 2005/05/05
- Re: mkdir -p and network drives, Paul Eggert, 2005/05/05
- Re: mkdir -p and network drives, Pierre A. Humblet, 2005/05/05
- Re: mkdir -p and network drives,
Igor Pechtchanski <=
- RE: mkdir -p and network drives, Dave Korn, 2005/05/05
- RE: mkdir -p and network drives, Igor Pechtchanski, 2005/05/06
- Re: mkdir -p and network drives, Paul Eggert, 2005/05/06
- Re: mkdir -p and network drives, Christopher Faylor, 2005/05/06
- Re: mkdir -p and network drives, Paul Eggert, 2005/05/07
- Message not available
- Re: mkdir -p and network drives, Eric Blake, 2005/05/07
- Re: mkdir -p and network drives, Jim Meyering, 2005/05/06
- cvs mirror stuck and lists.gnu.org offline (was: mkdir -p and network drives), Bob Proulx, 2005/05/05
Re: mkdir -p and network drives, Eric Blake, 2005/05/05