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Reading another blog about mkdirs in java reminds me of a gotcha

Author: Dave Cherry last modified
Keywords: gotcha java

Today I read an interesting blog article about mkdirs issues, that reminded me of some grief I have taken from the said method.

Basically, in short mkdirs is not thread safe, and will create every directory along the way - which is kinda powerful and dangerous.

I've had a couple of situations where after a typo I've been trying to find where the directories were created!

On the server, I tend to rely on the directories being created during initialisation!

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