Re: cygwin-1.5.19-2: mkdir returns inconsistent errno

2006-01-28 Thread Alex Riesen
Eric Blake, Fri, Jan 27, 2006 23:30:40 +0100: > According to Alex Riesen on 1/27/2006 11:26 AM: > > This was a bit prematurely. There is a big problem with this aproach: > > it changes current directory of the process. So you can't really use > > it in multithreade

Re: cygwin-1.5.19-2: mkdir returns inconsistent errno

2006-01-27 Thread Alex Riesen
Alex Riesen, Thu, Jan 26, 2006 17:21:21 +0100: > > > > > This is highly unexpected, does not match linux behaviour > > > > > (it returns EEXIST), and actually breaks git (git clone, > > > > > creation of pathnames, to be precise). > > >

Re: cygwin-1.5.19-2: mkdir returns inconsistent errno

2006-01-26 Thread Alex Riesen
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 port

Re: cygwin-1.5.19-2: mkdir returns inconsistent errno

2006-01-26 Thread Alex Riesen
On 1/26/06, Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > mkdir (also syscall) return "Permission denied" when its argument refers to > > a mountpoint at the top of windows drive (probably also a windows mount, > > I haven't tried). > > For example: > > $ mount d: /d > > $ mkdir / > > mkdir: cannot cr

cygwin-1.5.19-2: mkdir returns inconsistent errno

2006-01-26 Thread Alex Riesen
mkdir (also syscall) return "Permission denied" when its argument refers to a mountpoint at the top of windows drive (probably also a windows mount, I haven't tried). For example: $ mount d: /d $ mkdir / mkdir: cannot create directory `/': File exists $ mkdir /d mkdir: cannot create directory `/d'