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Re: Question about mkdir and windows paths
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:28:50 -0500
- Subject: Re: Question about mkdir and windows paths
- References: <c3f99bb1f41998fc91524388d0ff0ce0@rehley.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:36:02AM -0800, Peter Rehley wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm using mkdir with a windows path, and it's not working the way I
>expect. When I type the following command
>
>mkdir -p C:\\Cygwin\\tmp\hello; # cygwin and tmp already exist
>
>the directory is created.
>
>If I try the following
>
>rm -rf C:\\Cygwin\\tmp\\hello
>mkdir -p C:\\Cygwin\\tmp\\hello\\goodbye
>
>I get
>mkdir : cannot create directory `C:\\MontaVista\\tmp\\hello\\goodbye':
>No such file or directory
>
>Is this the except behavior of mkdir or is there a bug here? I've
>check the source and noticed that the make_path function only looks for
>'/'
One of the primary goals of cygwin is to avoid the use of windows paths to
avoid the requirement of adding special code to programs like mkdir.
cgf
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