Tom Lane wrote:
>>I don't know why the command 'mkdir' doesn't exhibit the
>>same problem as the function 'mkdir', but running:
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>> mkdir /software/postgresql-8.0.0
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>>produces the correct error "File exists" on my system.
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>Could you truss that and see what it does? It would be a simple change
>in initdb to make it stat before mkdir instead of after, but I'm not
>totally convinced that would fix the problem. If mkdir returns a funny
>error code then stat might as well ...
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There's also a tiny race condition, which I guess isn't worth worrying
about.
Returning ENOSYS is pretty bogus ...
cheers
andrew
