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Include EINVAL in mkdir(2) man page

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From: Raghavendra Prabhu <me <at> rdprabhu.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Include EINVAL in mkdir(2) man page
Date: Mon, 4 May 2015 20:01:31 +0530

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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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