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From: Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu@apple.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: mkdir(2) doesn't discuss EISDIR
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>Number:         161673
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       mkdir(2) doesn't discuss EISDIR
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Oct 14 23:30:03 UTC 2011
>Closed-Date:    Sat Oct 15 06:19:18 UTC 2011
>Last-Modified:  Sat Oct 15 06:19:18 UTC 2011
>Originator:     Jeremy Huddleston
>Release:        8.1
>Organization:
Apple Inc
>Environment:
FreeBSD freebsd8.apple.com 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jul 19 02:36:49 UTC 2010     root@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64

>Description:
mkdir(2) can set errno to EISDIR, but the man page does not discuss this.  You can use mkdir(1) to see this:

$ mkdir /
mkdir: /: Is a directory
$ mkdir /var
mkdir: /var: File exists

>How-To-Repeat:
$ mkdir /
mkdir: /: Is a directory
$ mkdir /var
mkdir: /var: File exists

>Fix:
I would expect EEXIST to be returned for /, but EISDIR was set instead.  I guess either update documentation or change the syscall to return EEXIST instead.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>
To: Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu@apple.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/161673: mkdir(2) doesn't discuss EISDIR
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:42:31 -0700

 You aren't the first one to ponder this question:
 http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2009-November/029940.htm=
 l
 -Garrett
Class-Changed-From-To: doc-bug->sw-bug 
Class-Changed-By: gjb 
Class-Changed-When: Sat Oct 15 01:10:44 UTC 2011 
Class-Changed-Why:  
Based on the provided followup URL, I think this belongs in 'bin', not 
'docs'. 



Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-doc->freebsd-bugs 
Responsible-Changed-By: gjb 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sat Oct 15 01:10:44 UTC 2011 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Based on the provided followup URL, I think this belongs in 'bin', not 
'docs'. 


http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=161673 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: jh 
State-Changed-When: Sat Oct 15 06:18:24 UTC 2011 
State-Changed-Why:  
Duplicate of kern/59739. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=161673 
>Unformatted:
