[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: mkdir bug with -m and -p together
|
From: |
Andreas Schwab |
|
Subject: |
Re: mkdir bug with -m and -p together |
|
Date: |
Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:32:32 +0100 |
|
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) |
Ariel <address@hidden> writes:
> -p does not use the mode from -m for parent directories:
>
> # mkdir -p -m 700 foo/bar
> # ls -ld foo foo/bar
This works as documented. The -m switch only modifies the permissions
of the leaf directory, the parent directories are created with only the
umask taken into account.
Andreas.
--
Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, address@hidden
SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5
"And now for something completely different."