Assaf Gordon <assafgor...@gmail.com> writes:
> On 2019-01-07 8:36 a.m., 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
>> do warn that --mode doesn't affect any parents created.
>> $ mkdir --mode 700 -p /tmp/g/h/i
>> $ find /tmp/g -ls
>> 55795 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 jidanni jidanni 60 Jan 7 23:30
>> /tmp/g
>> 55796 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 jidanni jidanni 60 Jan 7 23:30
>> /tmp/g/h
>> 55797 0 drwx------ 2 jidanni jidanni 40 Jan 7 23:30
>> /tmp/g/h/i
>> Also warn on (info "(coreutils) mkdir invocation") more directly. Thanks.
>
> The info manual does contain a short sentence about parents' modes:
> "To set the file permission bits of any newly-created parent
> directories to a value [...]"
>
> But this can be improved.
>
> Marking as wishlist. Patches are welcomed.
This was fixed below (in coreutils-9.0), so this can probably be closed:
commit 3e61d5dd315be3aa1982b66b4e137564c61c849f
Author: Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Tue Dec 15 11:52:19 2020 -0800
doc: document mkdir -m -p better
Chris Colohan wrote that the man page did not do enough to dispel
a common misunderstanding that “contributed to one of the scariest
outages Google has ever seen” (Bug#45258).
* doc/coreutils.texi (mkdir invocation):
* src/mkdir.c (usage): Document -m vs -p better.
