Re: mkdir -p and POSIX

2009-10-08 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Jim Meyering on 10/8/2009 12:32 PM: >> The Austin Group made their recommendation about mkdir -p today: >> http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=161 > > Hmm... that URL is useful only if you have a login/password. > Imposing such restric

Re: mkdir -p and POSIX

2009-10-08 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake wrote: > The Austin Group made their recommendation about mkdir -p today: > > "I suggest replacing the description of -p with: > > -p Create any missing intermediate pathname components. > > For each dir operand that does not name an existing directory, > before performing the a

Re: mkdir -p and POSIX

2009-10-08 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Eric, * Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 06:44:41PM CEST: > The Austin Group made their recommendation about mkdir -p today: [...] > This also means that build-aux/mkinstalldirs and build-aux/install-sh > are also impacted. Why? I don't see anything that defines the behavior of mk

mkdir -p and POSIX

2009-10-08 Thread Eric Blake
The Austin Group made their recommendation about mkdir -p today: "I suggest replacing the description of -p with: -p Create any missing intermediate pathname components. For each dir operand that does not name an existing directory, before performing the actions described in the DESCRIP