ignatios%cs.uni-bonn.de@localhost writes: > hi, > > On Fri, Oct 07, 2022 at 06:40:19AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: >> >> 1) Is NetBSD's mkdir -p safe, in that it is immune to >> check for dir >> call mkdir(2) which fails because another mkdir did it in between >> return -1 because that was an error >> >> I don't see this documented in the (9) manpage. > > ... because that's not where it's handled. > > Code inspection shows that mkdir itself, if mkdir(2) failed, > checks whether the (possibly intermediate) path exists and is > a directory, and in this case handles it the same af it was > created successfully. > > So the answer to this is "yes". Sorry, I meant not documented in mkdir(1).
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