sshfs-win and Easy LESS problem with mkdir (EPERM: operation not permitted, mkdir 'x:\HTML_mustry')

[karyslav]

Hi there,
we are using Easy LESS and we were forced to move our connection to server into SSHFS (https://github.com/winfsp/sshfs-win).

After ctrl+s there "EPERM: operation not permitted, mkdir 'x:\HTML_mustry'" there is a problem, becaushe directory exists, but windows and linux have different attitude in case of existing dir (merge versus replace).

I was trying to find any solution, and found this in vscode: microsoft/vscode#51915

I think that it is maybe related, mabye not, is there any chance it can be the same reason?

Thanks!

[szeberli]

I have the same problem.
Is there a solution?

[karyslav]

We stopped using this solution. So we did not solve this.

[tmesolutions]

Hi,
This is still an issue today.

I did this quick fix in LessCompiler.ts:

async function ensureDir(dirPath: string): Promise<void> {
    try {
        await fs.mkdir(dirPath, { recursive: true });
    } catch (err: any) {
        // If mkdir fails, check if directory actually exists
        try {
            const stat = await fs.stat(dirPath);
            if (!stat.isDirectory()) {
                throw new Error(`'${dirPath}' exists and is not a directory.`);
            }
            // If it is a directory, do nothing (directory already exists)
        } catch (statErr) {
            // If stat fails, rethrow the original error
            throw err;
        }
    }
}

// Writes a file's contents to a path and creates directories if they don't exist.
async function writeFileContents(filepath: string, content: any): Promise<void> {
    const outputDir = path.dirname(filepath);
    await ensureDir(outputDir);
    await fs.writeFile(filepath, content.toString());
}