Re: ipsvd-0.9.4 available

Gerrit Pape <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.misc.pape.general
Message-ID <20040711194105.27070.qmail@f424b98d6470cb.315fe32.mid.smarden.org>
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 01:08:51PM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 06:12:26PM +0000, Gerrit Pape wrote:
> > A symbolic link to a directory I assume.  Hopefully test -d follows
> > symlinks on solaris.
> 
> You can use 'test -d DIRECTORY/.' to make it work on every system I can
> imagine.

Good idea.  test -d dir is required to follow symlinks by the standard
though; I didn't find the same explicitly documented for mkdir -p.
Curious what `mkdir -p /command/.` says on solaris if /command is a
symlink to a directory ;-).

Regards, Gerrit.
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