-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Jon Stanley on 10/31/2008 11:20 AM: > Trying to make a directory structure with mode 755, when your umask is > for example 0007, doesn't produce the desired results for the parent > directories: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] src]# ./mkdir -m 755 -p /tmp/a/b/c > [EMAIL PROTECTED] src]# ls -lR /tmp/a > drwxrwx--- 3 root root 4096 Oct 31 17:17 b > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 31 17:17 c
> Is there some reason for this? I've verified this in my distros > coreutils, as well as coreutils-6.9 (above). I'd think this would be > a FAQ. but I found no other references to this aberrant behavior > anywhere :) Thanks for the report. However, this behavior is not aberrant. Rather, it is mandated by POSIX: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/mkdir.html For each dir operand that does not name an existing directory, effects equivalent to those caused by the following command shall occur: mkdir -p -m $(umask -S),u+wx $(dirname dir) && mkdir [-m mode] dir where the -m mode option represents that option supplied to the original invocation of mkdir, if any. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkkLULwACgkQ84KuGfSFAYAUWwCcDoXU92w8+dxiLI4LDvrXsVgY FOYAn0/5ej2t0ar6KuzP8IyKPi4QK93A =h5w5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
