[m-dev.] trivial diff: buxfix for the security fix.

[Tyson Dowd]

On 30-Mar-1998, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 30-Mar-1998, Tyson Dowd <trd at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > scripts/mmake.in:
> > 	Bugfix for previous change, mmake wasn't working on murlibobo.
> > 	"if ! mkdir... " seems to be a bash-ism.  Use mkdir ...., then
> > 	check $? instead.
> 
> I wondered about that when I reviewed the change, so I tried it out
> on a couple of machines -- but not Alphas.
> 
> As a minor stylistic point I think
> 
> 	if mkdir ... then
> 		true
> 	else
> 		...
> 	fi
> 	...
> 
> would be very slightly nicer than using $? and case.

Done.  Zoltan also fixed ml.in, which had a similar error.  Hopefully
this should be the end of it (except of course for the bug I found in
mktemp while doing this stuff).

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