On 1/26/06, Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > This is highly unexpected, does not match linux behaviour (it returns > > > > EEXIST), > > > > and actually breaks git (git clone, creation of pathnames, to be > > > > precise). > > > > > > Then git has a bug. Report it there. To be portable > > > when making pathnames, you must first check > > > for directory existance rather than relying on an > > > errno of EEXIST to tell you the directory exists. > > > > How do you do it race-free? > > chdir(). If chdir() succeeded, then the directory existed, > regardless of the errno that mkdir() reported. > Take a look at gnulib's mkdir-p.c module: > http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/gnulib/lib/mkdir-p.c?rev=1.5&root=gnulib&view=auto
Very interesting! Thank you for this and the other references. I'm given hope! :) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
