while hdp and converter struggle to help me on chatterbox, I thought I'd ask this just in case we can't find a solution.

I have a script that needs to create a series of directories. I hand wrote something that would walk the path, creating each directory (if needed) and have also tried using File::Path's functions. both work fine, right up until I try to create this directory: '/blah/10'.

At this point, both mkdir and File::Path::mkpath die with $! set to "file exsists", etc. and sure enough, there's a file sitting there so that '/blah/10' would test successfully against -e, not -d. it's ~185K, filled with a bunch of hex and isn't there immediately before the mkdir executed (I've tested... rm -rf'd the entire directory beforehand as well).

'/blah/09' and '/blah/11' are made with no trouble prior to '/blah/10'. this is running on a solaris box. 'mkdir 10' from the command line works fine.

Anyone? Bueller? :)

In reply to freaky mkdir problem by markguy

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