NAME
mkdir - create a directory
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
I int mkdir(const char * pathname , mode_t mode );
DESCRIPTION
R mkdir ()
attempts to create a directory named
R pathname .
The parameter
mode
specifies the permissions to use.
It is modified by the process's
umask
in the usual way: the permissions of the created directory are
(mode & ~umask & 0777).
Other mode bits of the created directory depend on the operating system.
For Linux, see below.
The newly created directory will be owned by the effective user ID of the
process.
If the directory containing the file has the set-group-ID
bit set, or if the filesystem is mounted with BSD group semantics, the
new directory will inherit the group ownership from its parent;
otherwise it will be owned by the effective group ID of the process.
If the parent directory has the set-group-ID bit set then so will the
newly created directory.
RETURN VALUE
R mkdir ()
returns zero on success, or -1 if an error occurred (in which case,
errno
is set appropriately).
ERRORS
EACCES
The parent directory does not allow write permission to the process,
or one of the directories in
R pathname
did not allow search permission.
(See also
path_resolution(7).)
EEXIST
pathname
already exists (not necessarily as a directory).
This includes the case where
pathname
is a symbolic link, dangling or not.
EFAULT
R pathname points outside your accessible address space.
ELOOP
Too many symbolic links were encountered in resolving
R pathname .
ENAMETOOLONG
R pathname was too long.
ENOENT
A directory component in
pathname
does not exist or is a dangling symbolic link.
ENOMEM
Insufficient kernel memory was available.
ENOSPC
The device containing
pathname
has no room for the new directory.
ENOSPC
The new directory cannot be created because the user's disk quota is
exhausted.
ENOTDIR
A component used as a directory in
pathname
is not, in fact, a directory.
EPERM
The filesystem containing
R pathname
does not support the creation of directories.
EROFS
pathname
refers to a file on a read-only filesystem.
CONFORMING TO
SVr4, BSD, POSIX.1-2001.
NOTES
Under Linux apart from the permission bits, only the
S_ISVTX
mode bit is honored.
That is, under Linux the created directory actually gets mode
(mode & ~umask & 01777).
See also
stat(2).
There are many infelicities in the protocol underlying NFS.
Some of these affect
R mkdir ().
SEE ALSO
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