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xinstall: plug an infinite loop in directory creation

Description

xinstall: plug an infinite loop in directory creation

If stat continues to fail with ENOENT and mkdir with EEXIST the code wont
finish. In particular this can show up when the target path follows through
a symlink to a non-existent directory.

Reported by: ae
MFC after: 1 week

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Provenance
mjgAuthored on
Parents
rS324546: MFC r324320:
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