Subject: Re: bug#41001: mkdir: cannot create directory ‘test’: File exists

From: Jonny Grant <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 2 May 2020 23:41:43 +0100

On 02/05/2020 20:47, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 5/2/20 6:26 AM, Jonny Grant wrote:
>> If developers have race conditions in their shell scripts
> 
> I've personally fixed a bug in the GNU mkdir command that was triggered by such
> races. Core utilities should be reliable even when these races are happening.

Is a more accurate strerror considered unreliable?

Current:
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘test’: File exists

Proposed:
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘test’: Is a directory

Cheers, Jonny