Re: Suggestion for mkdir (original) (raw)

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From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: Suggestion for mkdir
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 14:59:28 -0700
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On 11/20/2013 02:51 PM, Renich Bon Ciric wrote:

Hello,

I'd like to suggest that:

mkdir -m 2771 -p /tmp/some/nonexistent/dir

sets 2751 to all created dirs; not just the last one.

Such a change would require a new command line option, because the current behavior is mandated by POSIX:

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/mkdir.html

-- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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