Re: apparent complexity of mkdir-p module

2012-06-07 Thread Paul Eggert
On 06/07/2012 05:09 AM, John W. Eaton wrote: > I was expecting to find a simple interface but unfortunately what you found is what's needed to implement GNU 'mkdir -p'. Among other things, the permissions of the parent directories differ from the permissions of the child directory. It of course

apparent complexity of mkdir-p module (was: Re: dirchownmod and savewd modules uses unavailable functions under) Windows

2012-06-07 Thread John W. Eaton
On 7-Jun-2012, Paul Eggert wrote: | Much of gnulib has never been ported to MSVC / MingW | and apparently octave is using that part. I suggest | using Cygwin. If it were up to me, I'd go a step further and say, "don't use Windows," but the reality is that that's not going to fly with many of Oc