On Feb 20 17:37, Lionel Cons via Cygwin wrote: > 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.
You know exactly what Cygwin is doing wrong, great! I'm looking forward to your git-formatted patch on cygwin-patches. I'm already pretty curious of the actual cause of the problem. Corinna -- 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
