mkdir(2)

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NAME

6       mkdir - create a directory
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SYNOPSIS

9       #include <sys/stat.h>
10       #include <sys/types.h>
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12       int mkdir(const char *pathname, mode_t mode);
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DESCRIPTION

15       mkdir() attempts to create a directory named pathname.
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17       The  argument mode specifies the permissions to use.  It is modified by
18       the process's umask in the usual way: the permissions  of  the  created
19       directory  are  (mode & ~umask & 0777).  Other mode bits of the created
20       directory depend on the operating system.  For Linux, see below.
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22       The newly created directory will be owned by the effective user  ID  of
23       the process.  If the directory containing the file has the set-group-ID
24       bit set, or if the file system is  mounted  with  BSD  group  semantics
25       (mount -o bsdgroups or, synonymously mount -o grpid), the new directory
26       will inherit the group ownership from its parent; otherwise it will  be
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29       If  the  parent directory has the set-group-ID bit set then so will the
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RETURN VALUE

33       mkdir() returns zero on success, or -1 if an error occurred  (in  which
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ERRORS

37       EACCES The  parent  directory  does  not  allow write permission to the
38              process, or one of the directories in  pathname  did  not  allow
39              search permission.  (See also path_resolution(7).)
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41       EEXIST pathname  already exists (not necessarily as a directory).  This
42              includes the case where pathname is a symbolic link, dangling or
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45       EFAULT pathname points outside your accessible address space.
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47       ELOOP  Too many symbolic links were encountered in resolving pathname.
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52       ENOENT A  directory  component  in pathname does not exist or is a dan‐
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57       ENOSPC The device containing pathname has no room for  the  new  direc‐
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60       ENOSPC The  new  directory  cannot  be  created because the user's disk
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64              A component used as a directory in pathname is not, in  fact,  a
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67       EPERM  The  file  system  containing pathname does not support the cre‐
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70       EROFS  pathname refers to a file on a read-only file system.
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CONFORMING TO

73       SVr4, BSD, POSIX.1-2001.
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NOTES

76       Under Linux apart from the permission bits, only the S_ISVTX  mode  bit
77       is  honored.   That is, under Linux the created directory actually gets
78       mode (mode & ~umask & 01777).  See also stat(2).
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80       There are many infelicities in the protocol underlying  NFS.   Some  of
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COLOPHON

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