Behavior of 'mkdir'

[Shai Ayal]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 7:31 PM, WMennerich <W.Mennerich at gmx.net> wrote:

>
> First:
>
> This (simple) solution should work in both environments:
>
> >
> >[ack msg]=mkdir('testDirectory')
> >
> >if ~ack
> >    if strcmp(msg,'File exists')
> >        % 'Wrong alert'  by octave, -->do nothing
> >    else
> >        % some other thing is wrong, e.g. throw an errror here.
> >    end
> >end


Maybe you can submit a patch like this to the mkdir documentation?


>
> But another thing which could increase the Octave/Matlab compatiblility:
>
> The message string of the mkdir-function differs in the discussed case:
>
> Matlab wrotes: 'Directory already exists.' (also with the point at the end)
>
> Octave wrotes: 'File exists'
>
>
> I would suggest to fit the message string given back by the octave mkdir to
> the output which comes from matlab to make strcmp-constructs more
> compatible
> between Matlab and Octave. Also because 'File exists' may be
> misleading: Sure, in UnixU/Linux everything is a 'file', also directories.
> But since
> the name of this function is 'mkdir' and not 'mkfile' or something else,
> the
> message should have a relation to 'directory'


So can you submit a patch?

 Shai
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