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bug#19963: 25.0.50; Unable to create a directory with name same as an ex
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Eli Zaretskii |
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bug#19963: 25.0.50; Unable to create a directory with name same as an existing file |
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Fri, 27 Feb 2015 23:50:53 +0200 |
> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 23:48:59 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: 19963-done@debbugs.gnu.org
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> A directory is just a special kind of file on most filesystems, and
> like a file, it has an entry in its parent directory. So there cannot
> be a file and a directory with the same name, because there can be 2
> identical entries in their parent directory. ^^^^^^
I meant "cannot be", of course. Sorry.