Subject: Re: mkdir with trailing / (patch proposed)
To: Julio Merino <jmmv@hispabsd.org>
From: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.ca>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/28/2002 15:38:37
On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Julio Merino wrote:
> Well, if it is "optional" why not include this feature? Some apps rely
> on it; I found 'gabber' buggy, so I needed to patch it. But what about
> apps that we don't have binaries of? They can't be fixed and therefore
> won't probably work (as somebody said, myst).

Some linux applications (Loki Games installers come to mind) rely on the
trailing / being allowed, and they fail horribly because we don't support
it.

Jared