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On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:

> A more correct way to do this would involve the introduction of a new
> namei operational flag, passing that from mkdir(), and if that flag is
> set, trimming the trailing slashes off the pathname early in namei().

Or not worry about trailing slashes on the last component if we have said
flag set.

The attached patch adds a new flag, NOREQLAST, which means to not
REQUIREDIR on the last path component. When this is set, the last
component not existing won't generate an error on lookup.

I made a test version of mkdir which didn't remove trailing slashes, and
mkdir worked.

Take care,

Bill

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