[ On Thursday, October 19, 2000 at 21:33:53 (-0700), Greywolf wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: wierd behaviour of mkdir(2)
>
> open("/some/path/", flags, mode) should still fail, though, if flags
> specifies creation and "/some/path" does not exist, or if it does exist
> as a non-directory.

POSIX and BSD say yes (though the trailing slash should be permitted for
mkdir, I think).  Every Research Unix from Bell Labs says no.

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