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diff --git a/gio/gfile.c b/gio/gfile.c
index 65083efb7..22f74230c 100644
--- a/gio/gfile.c
+++ b/gio/gfile.c
@@ -3757,6 +3757,11 @@ g_file_make_directory_with_parents (GFile *file,
if (g_cancellable_set_error_if_cancelled (cancellable, error))
return FALSE;
+ /* Try for the simple case of not having to create any parent
+ * directories. If any parent directory needs to be created, this
+ * call will fail with NOT_FOUND. If that happens, then that value of
+ * my_error persists into the while loop below.
+ */
g_file_make_directory (file, cancellable, &my_error);
if (!g_error_matches (my_error, G_IO_ERROR, G_IO_ERROR_NOT_FOUND))
{
@@ -3767,6 +3772,13 @@ g_file_make_directory_with_parents (GFile *file,
work_file = g_object_ref (file);
+ /* Creates the parent directories as needed. In case any particular
+ * creation operation fails for lack of other parent directories
+ * (NOT_FOUND), the directory is added to a list of directories to
+ * create later, and the value of my_error is retained until the next
+ * iteration of the loop. After the loop my_error should either be
+ * empty or contain a real failure condition.
+ */
while (g_error_matches (my_error, G_IO_ERROR, G_IO_ERROR_NOT_FOUND))
{
GFile *parent_file;
@@ -3792,6 +3804,11 @@ g_file_make_directory_with_parents (GFile *file,
g_object_unref (parent_file);
}
+ /* All directories should be able to be created now, so an error at
+ * this point means the whole operation must fail -- except an EXISTS
+ * error, which means that another process already created the
+ * directory in between the previous failure and now.
+ */
for (l = list; my_error == NULL && l; l = l->next)
{
g_file_make_directory ((GFile *) l->data, cancellable, &my_error);
@@ -3809,6 +3826,10 @@ g_file_make_directory_with_parents (GFile *file,
list = g_list_remove (list, list->data);
}
+ /* At this point an error in my_error means a that something
+ * unexpected failed in either of the loops above, so the whole
+ * operation must fail.
+ */
if (my_error != NULL)
{
g_propagate_error (error, my_error);