Re: FTP and mkdir / make-directory

[Michael Albinus]

Matthew Krauss <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,

Hi Matthew,

> I'm having a problem with using mkdir or make-directory on an FTP host
> when the directory already exists. If you give t for the parents
> parameter to mkdir, it should silently ignore it when the directory
> already exists. This works for local directories as well as remote
> ones using ssh/sftp. However, using ftp, it throws an error when the
> directory exists.

Thanks for the report, it is a bug in ange-ftp. I've fixed it in the
release branch of Emacs, will be available with Emacs 24.3 (currently
under pretest).

> Any advice appreciated,
> Matthew

Best regards, Michael.