system mkdir

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:25:20 -0400, noboy <nobody at nowhere.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> import std.stdio;
> import std.process;
> import std.string;
>
>
> void main() {
>     string debPackage="dmd-2";
>     int dmdVersion=2;
>     auto path =  
> format("%s/usr/{bin,lib,src/phobos%d,share/man}",debPackage,dmdVersion);
>     system("mkdir -p " ~ path);
> }
>
>
> The result:
> dmd-2/usr/{bin,lib,src
>
> it should be
> dmd-2/usr/bin
> dmd-2/usr/lib
> dmd-2/usr/src
>
> Kubuntu 8.0.4

The system function calls the libc system function.  If you don't like the  
behavior, complain to the developers of libc for Kubuntu.

If system is behaving differently under C, then that might be D's problem,  
but I can't tell if that's the case from your example.

-Steve