On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 at 14:56, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: > > Good afternoon! > > Cygwin 3.6.0-0.378.g78fb13d21f4f.x86_64, Cygwin coreutils package 9.6-1 > > coreutils mkdir is broken on UNC paths: > > mkdir -p -- > "//ember.data4.local/afs/disk11/builds/bash/install_root/usr/local/bin" > mkdir: cannot create directory ‘//ember.data4.local’: Read-only file system > > This happens because you cannot do a "cd .." in > //ember.data4.local/afs, because "afs" is the UNC prefix for that > filesystem.
No, it happens because mkdir "//ember.data4.local" returns "Read-only file system". If Cygwin would just return EEXIST if this mount exists, then this whole mkdir -p would work. Lionel -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
