bug#41001: mkdir: cannot create directory ‘test’: File exists

[Jonny Grant]

On 02/05/2020 20:47, Paul Eggert wrote:

On 5/2/20 6:26 AM, Jonny Grant wrote:

If developers have race conditions in their shell scripts

I've personally fixed a bug in the GNU mkdir command that was triggered by such
races. Core utilities should be reliable even when these races are happening.

Is a more accurate strerror considered unreliable?

Current:
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘test’: File exists

Proposed:
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘test’: Is a directory

Cheers, Jonny