On 30/11/09 14:47, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
+/* Returns:
+ * 0 if everything was OK,
+ * -1 for a general error (sets errno),
+ * -2 if an existing path element was not a directory.
+ */
static int
recursive_mkdir (const char *path)
{
@@ -130,10 +135,7 @@ recursive_mkdir (const char *path)
if (errno == EEXIST) { /* Something exists here, might not be a dir. */
r = lstat (path,&buf);
if (r == -1) return -1;
- if (!S_ISDIR (buf.st_mode)) {
- errno = ENOTDIR;
- return -1;
- }
+ if (!S_ISDIR (buf.st_mode)) return -2;
return 0; /* OK - directory exists here already. */
}
If you made this return -ENOTDIR it would be slightly less magic when
used later.
Matt
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