Hi Neil.

24-Jul-03 09:23:00, Neil Heller wrote to Jasen Betts


 JB>> mkdir() made it into Posix, so it should be availavble on most
 JB>> platforms that support that sort of behavior.... (eg not
 JB>> available on CP/M)

 JB>> note also that mkdir will fail if there's already a file with a
 JB>> name like the directory you want to create, or may fail for other
 JB>> resons too...

 NH> Other reasons?  Aside from hardware failure, what might they be?

disk space, read only media, no (network) permission, no more room in root
directory, possibly some more I've forgotten.

 NH>> BTW, mkdir() is a standard part of Java, FWIW.

 JB>> java is differently targeted than C.

 NH> Do you mean that there's no Java support on systems that don't
 NH> support, for example, directories?

I can't think of an example platform... actually I don't know enough about
the java virtual machine to answer that propperly.

 -=> Bye <=-

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