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From: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net>
To: Thomas Cannon <tcannon@noops.org>
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Subject: Re: I think this could be better
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On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 02:04:09PM -0700, Thomas Cannon wrote:
> > And if you don't have /tmp mounted with nosymfollow (sigh...), then you'll
> > get "mkdir: install.352: File exists" instead.
> 
> Nope. No errors. You're forgetting the "-p" that is present in the
> Makefile:
> 
> [root@stereophonic]# mkdir install.666/
> mkdir: install.666/: File exists
> [root@stereophonic]# mkdir -p install.666/
> [root@stereophonic]#

This makes we wonder why we even bother with the -p :

{setantae@rhadamanth}-{/tmp} $ mkdir install.34534
{setantae@rhadamanth}-{/tmp} $ mkdir install.34534
mkdir: install.34534: File exists
{setantae@rhadamanth}-{/tmp} $ rmdir install.34534
{setantae@rhadamanth}-{/tmp} $ ln -s /etc.old/passwd install.34534
{setantae@rhadamanth}-{/tmp} $ mkdir install.34534 
mkdir: install.34534: File exists
{setantae@rhadamanth}-{/tmp} $ 

"mkdir -m 0700 ${TMPDIR}" would be better, no ?

Ceri

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