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Jason Riedy wrote:
> I guess our home directories recently were changed from symlinks
> to autmounts.  Solaris 8's mkdir(2) returns ENOSYS when applied
> to these, breaking safe_create_leading_directories.  I don't
> know if ENOSYS is available everywhere, or if this odd behavior
> is appropriate everywhere.
> 
> This works for me, but should I wrap mkdir for bizarre behavior
> by adding a compat/gitmkdir.c?

Wow, Solaris really can be braindamaged sometimes...

	-hpa