Re: mkdir -p and network drives

[Paul Eggert]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:

> //MACHINE currently generates ENOENT, whether or not there is a
> server on the network with that name, and mkdir(2), stat(2), and
> chdir(2) with an argument of "//MACHINE" fail.

That's certainly a hassle.  Let's not worry about going through
zillions of lines of application code working around that
incompatibility.  Let's get Cygwin fixed instead.

> By the way, the coreutils anon CVS mirror syncronization
> appears to be hung again,

It'll probably get resynced in a week or so.  The CVS administrator is
on vacation.  In theory you can recover the current state by applying
all the patches I've sent out via bug-coreutils.