>>> "adl" == Alexandre Duret-Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...] adl> mkinstalldirs also uses IFS the split the directory in case `mkdir -p' adl> does not exist, but its `mkdir -p' check is more restrictive. (I buy adl> your "sleep 1; test -d" instead.) On second though I don't buy it: it only works if both "mkdir -p" invocations are creating the same directory path. It doesn't work if one create "a/b/", the other "a/c/", and both race on "a" as described in mkinstalldirs. -- Alexandre Duret-Lutz