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List:       autoconf-bug
Subject:    Re: mkdir -p -- minor cleanup
From:       Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues () gmx ! de>
Date:       2006-04-25 20:43:16
Message-ID: 20060425204316.GC6110 () iam ! uni-bonn ! de
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Hi Paul,

* Paul Eggert wrote on Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 10:36:43PM CEST:
> 
> If I understand you and Ralf correctly about race conditions, here is
> a proposed patch to should fix the condition on POSIX conforming
> hosts.  On older hosts there's no hope that I can see in general, but
> it's not worth worrying about these ancient hosts at this point.  I
> hope this addresses Ralf's concerns.

Yes, I think so.  Very clever patch, thank you!

Cheers,
Ralf

> 2006-04-24  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> 
> 	* lib/install-sh: Close a race condition reported by Ralf
> 	Wildenhues and Stepan Kasal.  There is still a race condition
> 	on hosts that predate POSIX 1003.1-1992, but we can't help this.



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