Apologies for the report.  Looks like mkdir(2) man page is maintained by
man-pages project, I will report it there.  Thanks.

On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 8:01 PM, Raghavendra Prabhu <me@rdprabhu.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It is possible for mkdir(2) to return EINVAL in certain circumstances.
> However, the man page mkdir(2) doesn't mention that.
>
> I am hitting it on overlayfs. Other instances reported:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10015377/mkdir-pathname-with-symbol
> http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-bugs/2009-05/msg01771.html
>
> So, it needs to be documented in man page for mkdir(2).
>
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> Raghavendra
>
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