GNU bug report logs - #41001
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘test’: File exists

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Jonny Grant <jg <at> jguk.org>

Date: Fri, 1 May 2020 15:16:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>, Jonny Grant <jg <at> jguk.org>, Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>
Cc: 41001 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41001: mkdir: cannot create directory ‘test’: File exists
Date: Sun, 10 May 2020 12:07:42 -0700

On 5/7/20 7:06 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> 
> (My personal wish: I would love a variation of mkdir that returns an open fd on
> the just-created directory on success in a single syscall,

Yes! That would be a worthy addition.
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