From 1e926698897866d89b4a54e28f0e15c08d08c7ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: alfred <alfred@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 12:08:50 +0000
Subject: Special case the error reporting when errno is ENOTDIR or ENOENT.

This makes "mkdir /nonexistant/foo" complain that /nonexistant
doesn't exist rather than /nonexistant/foo which doesn't make much
sense.

Submitted (in a different form) by: W.H.Scholten <whs@xs4all.nl>
---
 bin/mkdir/mkdir.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'bin/mkdir')

diff --git a/bin/mkdir/mkdir.c b/bin/mkdir/mkdir.c
index 6c61abf..596e09f 100644
--- a/bin/mkdir/mkdir.c
+++ b/bin/mkdir/mkdir.c
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ static const char rcsid[] =
 
 #include <err.h>
 #include <errno.h>
+#include <libgen.h>
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <string.h>
@@ -108,7 +109,10 @@ main(argc, argv)
 			if (build(*argv, omode))
 				success = 0;
 		} else if (mkdir(*argv, omode) < 0) {
-			warn("%s", *argv);
+			if (errno == ENOTDIR || errno == ENOENT)
+				warn("%s", dirname(*argv));
+			else
+				warn("%s", *argv);
 			success = 0;
 		} else if (vflag)
 			(void)printf("%s\n", *argv);
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