Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Why the hell shouldn't it be able to do an mkdir! The use of mkdir in this manner has to be considered a bug. You don't know that the object at that name on the server is a directory. It might be a symbolic link. David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html