Hi Lauri,

Lauri Tirkkonen via GNU coreutils Bug Reports <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>
writes:

> saw this on coreutils 9.7 on Alpine Linux, but it also reproduces on
> commit 027855dcad52d718927c3405bc7d605143e2a625.
>
> 	# mount -t tmpfs -o ro none /mnt
> 	# ./src/ginstall -d /mnt/foo
> 	ginstall: cannot change permissions of ‘/mnt/foo’: No such file or directory
>
> I would expect the error to be EROFS for creating the directory, not
> changing permissions of the directory that was not able to be created.
> strace confirms mkdir() returns EROFS, but install tries to open() and
> stat() the not-created directory afterward.

Thanks for the report.

It looks like the Gnulib mkdir-p module does not fail when 'mkdir' fails
with EROFS. And it looks like it has always behaved this way.

Paul, you are certainly more familiar with gnulib's mkdir-p and savewd
modules than I am. Can you check that the attached patch is correct
before I commit it?

Here is the new error based on Lauri's example:

    $ ./src/ginstall -d /mnt/foo
    ginstall: cannot create directory ‘/mnt/foo’: Read-only file system

Thanks,
Collin