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Laura Conrad <lconrad@laymusic.org> writes:

> When I try to enter the cvs gnus that I upped this afternoon, I get:
>
> Signaling: (file-error "Creating directory" "file exists" "/home/lconrad/Mail/world/old")
>   make-directory-internal("/home/lconrad/Mail/world/old")
>   make-directory("/home/lconrad/Mail/world/old/" t)
>   gnus-make-directory("/home/lconrad/Mail/world/old/")

I don't get this, `gnus-make-directory' should only create the
directory if it does not already exist:

(defun gnus-make-directory (directory)
  "Make DIRECTORY (and all its parents) if it doesn't exist."
  (require 'nnmail)
  (let ((file-name-coding-system nnmail-pathname-coding-system))
    (when (and directory
	       (not (file-exists-p directory)))
      (make-directory directory t)))
  t)

Is there something wrong with `file-exists-p' in your setup?  NFS?
Does `(file-exists-p "/home/lconrad/Mail/world/old/")' really evaluate
to nil?  The directory exists, right?

Maybe `file-directory-p' should be used instead?