X-Git-Url: http://erislabs.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fposix-functions%2Fmkdir.texi;h=69b67a528915c629e8f9a20f4cc20e813ed57a5d;hb=54b5ce0e1a4f6a4af37f970e45e6e173e5b0a1c6;hp=20d13bb83c97f76b9212f68fe63a7e251e207168;hpb=09ef7461110822a3970aa8eebcfaa740996a82f2;p=gnulib.git diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/mkdir.texi b/doc/posix-functions/mkdir.texi index 20d13bb83..69b67a528 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/mkdir.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/mkdir.texi @@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: @item When the argument ends in a slash, the function call fails on some platforms. @item +This function mistakenly succeeds on @samp{mkdir("d/./",mode)} on +some platforms: +Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw. +@item On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), this function is called @code{_mkdir} and takes only one argument. The fix (without Gnulib) is to define a macro like this: