difference between /tmp and other directory for loadable mkdir?

From	Peng Yu <pengyu.ut@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	difference between /tmp and other directory for loadable mkdir?
Date	2018-12-26 12:40 -0600
Message-ID	<mailman.6328.1545849625.1284.bug-bash@gnu.org> (permalink)

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Hi,

I can not mkdir -p . in /tmp/ via the loadable mkdir. What is the
difference between /tmp/ and other directories? I am on Mac OS X. Is
this a bug in mkdir?

$ cd /tmp
$ mkdir -p -- .
-bash: mkdir: .: Operation not permitted
$ cd ~/
$ mkdir -p -- .

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Regards,
Peng

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