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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
