[PATCH] Don't fail to create passwd and group files if /etc already exists

[Chris Johns]

On 20/02/2015 8:29 pm, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>
> On 20/02/15 10:06, Nick Withers wrote:
>> On Fri, 2015-02-20 at 08:59 +0100, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>>> >Hello Nick,
>>> >
>>> >thanks for the patch. I checked in a slightly different version which
>>> >ignores the return status completely.
>> Hi Sebastian,
>>
>> Your commit effectively reverts Joel's changes in
>> https://git.rtems.org/rtems/commit/?id=3211e8e9c0565fae8b13ba0115e3a23ad3ae8ade
>>
>>
>> Would chucking a (void) in front of the mkdir() shut Coverity up?
>
> Ok, I should have checked the commit history since I wondered why I
> added this error check in the first place. Lets try a (void) cast.
>

What about doing a stat, create the directory if not present and then 
error on a mkdir failure ? There are other failures that could happen 
making a directory that we should correctly report.

Chris