mkdir -m option POSIX compliance

Ruslan Ermilov ru at FreeBSD.org
Tue Oct 10 13:19:02 PDT 2006


On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 08:00:21PM +0200, Alex Unleashed wrote:
>    On 10/10/06, Ruslan Ermilov <[1]ru at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
>      On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 03:24:14PM +0200, Alex Unleashed wrote:
>      > Hi all,
>      >
>      > "mkdir -m mode -p /some/directory" calls chmod() on /some/directory
>      even if
>      > it already exists, effectively changing the mode. POSIX specifies that
>      this
>      > mode may only be applied to newly created directories. Patch attached.
>      > Please look at the URLs referenced in the patch for further
>      information.
>      >
>      I've modified your patch slightly, to save a variable.
>      How does this look to you?
> 
>    Looks good to me.
> 
OK, committed.


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Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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