Re: diffutils 2.8.1 on OSF 3.2C

[Paul Eggert]

Christian Krackowizer <address@hidden> writes:

> >What are the outputs of the following commands on your host?
> >
> >mkdir -p .
> 
> nothing
> 
> ...
> + mkdir -p .
> + echo 'config.status:614: error: cannot create directory "."'
> + echo 'config.status: error: cannot create directory "."'
> config.status: error: cannot create directory "."

Hmm, "mkdir -p ." outputs nothing, but it fails?  That's unexpected,
so let's try to confirm this.  What is the output of the following
shell command, using the same shell that config.status uses?

if mkdir -p .
then echo 'mkdir -p . succeeded'
else echo "mkdir -p . failed with exit status $?"
fi