Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 11:40:11 -0700 From: hohmuth@inf.tu-dresden.de To: freebsd-bugs Subject: bin/594: "mkdir -p some/path/" fails to create last path component when path has trailing slash Message-ID: <199507051840.LAA00903@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 5 Jul 1995 16:44:32 GMT <199507051644.QAA00587@irs201.inf.tu-dresden.de>
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>Number: 594
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: "mkdir -p some/path/" fails to create last path component when path has trailing slash
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs (FreeBSD bugs mailing list)
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed Jul 5 11:40:00 1995
>Originator: Michael Hohmuth
>Organization:
Dept. of Computer Science, TU Dresden, Germany
>Release: FreeBSD 2.0-BUILT-19950603 i386
>Environment:
olymp:~> uname -a
FreeBSD olymp.inf.tu-dresden.de 2.0.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.0.5-RELEASE #0: Wed Jul 5 12:39:10 1995 root@olymp.inf.tu-dresden.de:/usr/src/sys/compile/OLYMP i386
otherwise nothing special
>Description:
"mkdir -p some/path/" fails to create last path component when
path has trailing slash
>How-To-Repeat:
!10 olymp:~> /bin/mkdir -p foo/bar/
!11 olymp:~> /bin/ls -lFa foo/
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 hohmuth staff 512 Jul 5 16:29 ./
drwxr-xr-x 6 hohmuth staff 512 Jul 5 16:29 ../
!12 olymp:~> rm -rf foo
!13 olymp:~> /bin/mkdir -p foo/bar
!14 olymp:~> /bin/ls -lFa foo/
total 6
drwxr-xr-x 3 hohmuth staff 512 Jul 5 16:30 ./
drwxr-xr-x 6 hohmuth staff 512 Jul 5 16:30 ../
drwxr-xr-x 2 hohmuth staff 512 Jul 5 16:30 bar/
Note that in line "!11", the directory "foo" does not contain
a directory "bar". When the directories have been created
without a trailing slash ("!13"), the problem doesn't occur
("!14").
>Fix:
Workaround: don't use "mkdir -p" with a trailing slash
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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