changeset 40025:d80a47eca286

mkdir-p: improve diagnostic for FUSE mounts Problem reported by Niklas Hambüchen in: https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-gnulib/2018-12/msg00074.html * lib/mkdir-p.c (make_dir_parents): In diagnostic, prefer stat errno to mkdir errno if the stat errno is likely more interesting.
author Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
date Fri, 14 Dec 2018 16:25:13 -0800
parents 493211f9fd3d
children c51e38088432
files ChangeLog lib/mkdir-p.c
diffstat 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/ChangeLog	Fri Dec 14 23:08:10 2018 +0100
+++ b/ChangeLog	Fri Dec 14 16:25:13 2018 -0800
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2018-12-14  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+
+	mkdir-p: improve diagnostic for FUSE mounts
+	Problem reported by Niklas Hambüchen in:
+	https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-gnulib/2018-12/msg00074.html
+	* lib/mkdir-p.c (make_dir_parents): In diagnostic, prefer stat
+	errno to mkdir errno if the stat errno is likely more interesting.
+
 2018-12-14  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
 
 	hash-map: Add tests.
--- a/lib/mkdir-p.c	Fri Dec 14 23:08:10 2018 +0100
+++ b/lib/mkdir-p.c	Fri Dec 14 16:25:13 2018 -0800
@@ -146,12 +146,23 @@
 
           if (preserve_existing)
             {
-              struct stat st;
-              if (mkdir_errno == 0
-                  || (mkdir_errno != ENOENT && make_ancestor
-                      && stat (dir + prefix_len, &st) == 0
-                      && S_ISDIR (st.st_mode)))
+              if (mkdir_errno == 0)
                 return true;
+              if (mkdir_errno != ENOENT && make_ancestor)
+                {
+                  struct stat st;
+                  if (stat (dir + prefix_len, &st) == 0)
+                    {
+                      if (S_ISDIR (st.st_mode))
+                        return true;
+                    }
+                  else if (mkdir_errno == EEXIST
+                           && errno != ENOENT && errno != ENOTDIR)
+                    {
+                      error (0, errno, _("cannot stat %s"), quote (dir));
+                      return false;
+                    }
+                }
             }
           else
             {