On Sun, May 03, 2020 at 02:00:25PM +0100, Jonny Grant wrote: > Hi > > I noticed that mkdir() returns EEXIST if a directory already exists. > strerror(EEXIST) text is "File exists" > > Can ext4_find_dest_de() be amended to return EISDIR if a directory already > exists? This will make the error message clearer. No; this will confuse potentially a large number of existing programs. Also, the current behavior is required by POSIx and the Single Unix Specification standards. https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/ Regards, - Ted
