From 9e42ddf72c2851c3a204dfa73583eb2c7236cfa8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Patrick LeBlanc <patrick.leblanc@mariadb.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 10:10:12 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Found a bug in IDBPolicy re creating a 'scratch space' dir. 
 It wasn't checking for errors right, or creating the dir right.

---
 utils/idbdatafile/IDBPolicy.cpp | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/utils/idbdatafile/IDBPolicy.cpp b/utils/idbdatafile/IDBPolicy.cpp
index 58b1d4601..e8240c481 100644
--- a/utils/idbdatafile/IDBPolicy.cpp
+++ b/utils/idbdatafile/IDBPolicy.cpp
@@ -83,8 +83,15 @@ void IDBPolicy::init( bool bEnableLogging, bool bUseRdwrMemBuffer, const string&
         else
         {
 			cout << tmpfilepath << endl;
-
-            if (!boost::filesystem::create_directory(tmpfilepath))
+            bool itWorked = false;
+            
+            try 
+            {
+                itWorked = boost::filesystem::create_directories(tmpfilepath);
+            }
+            catch (...)
+            { }
+            if (!itWorked)
             {
                 // We failed to create the scratch directory
                 ostringstream oss;