On 2/9/23 12:11 PM, Rob Landley wrote:
Therefore, when there is competition among many calls to coreutils
`mkdir -p`. The first instance will create the target, and the rest
instances will fail on the system call of mkdir. But since they find
the target is already created and is a directory, they will not
complain about the error system call mkdir. That is why I never see an
error similar to that of bash loadable `mkdir -p`. Is it so?
Right. That suggests a bug in the bash loadable,
as it should not fail in this case.
Which would be a question for bash's maintainer, not coreutils. :)
It's a question of how you deal with the race condition in the original
script. Do you check first, then mkdir (bash loadable), or mkdir, then
check failure (coreutils)? There's a race condition with either approach.
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