On Oct 29 14:33, Egerton, Jim wrote:
> Test program:
> $ cat x.cc
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <sys/stat.h>
>
> int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
> mkdir("/tmp/foo", 0777);
> }
>
> $ ls -ld /tmp/foo
> ls: cannot access /tmp/foo: No such file or directory
>
> $ ./x
>
> $ ls -ld /tmp/foo
> drwxr-xr-x 1 root Administrators 0 Oct 29 20:27 /tmp/foo
That's a umask thingy. Your umask is probably set to 0022, and per
POSIX, mkdir(2) has to take the umask into account. If you use mkdir(1)
from coreutils:
mkdir -m 777 /tmp/foo
it should create the permissions as desired, though, since mkdir(1)
sets the umask to 0 if the -m option has been given.
Corinna
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