From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 02:10:34 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (make_dir): When reporting a mkdir failure and the
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(make_dir): When reporting a mkdir failure and the
target cannot be `stat'ed, use the errno from the failed mkdir call,
not the one from the stat call.  Before this change, running
`mkdir -p /no-dir/no-dir' as an unprivileged user would wrongly
elicit `No such file or directory' instead of `Permission denied'.
---

diff --git a/lib/makepath.c b/lib/makepath.c
index 4a758e37a7..20e9a1288e 100644
--- a/lib/makepath.c
+++ b/lib/makepath.c
@@ -162,6 +162,7 @@ make_dir (const char *dir, const char *dirpath, mode_t mode, int *created_dir_p)
   if (!created_dir)
     {
       struct stat stats;
+      int saved_errno = errno;
 
       /* The mkdir and stat calls below may appear to be reversed.
 	 They are not.  It is important to call mkdir first and then to
@@ -173,7 +174,7 @@ make_dir (const char *dir, const char *dirpath, mode_t mode, int *created_dir_p)
 
       if (stat (dir, &stats))
 	{
-	  error (0, errno, _("cannot create directory `%s'"), dirpath);
+	  error (0, saved_errno, _("cannot create directory `%s'"), dirpath);
 	  fail = 1;
 	}
       else if (!S_ISDIR (stats.st_mode))