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4.0 KiB
Groff
119 lines
4.0 KiB
Groff
.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991, 1993
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.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\" @(#)mkdir.2 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/11/93
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd December 9, 2006
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.Dt MKDIR 2
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm mkdir
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.Nd make a directory file
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.Sh LIBRARY
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.Lb libc
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In sys/types.h
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.In sys/stat.h
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.Ft int
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.Fn mkdir "const char *path" "mode_t mode"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The directory
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.Fa path
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is created with the access permissions specified by
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.Fa mode
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and restricted by the
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.Xr umask 2
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of the calling process.
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.Pp
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The directory's owner ID is set to the process's effective user ID.
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The directory's group ID is set to that of the parent directory in
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which it is created.
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.Sh RETURN VALUES
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.Rv -std mkdir
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.Sh ERRORS
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The
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.Fn mkdir
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system call
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will fail and no directory will be created if:
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.Bl -tag -width Er
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.It Bq Er ENOTDIR
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A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
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.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
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A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters,
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or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.
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.It Bq Er ENOENT
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A component of the path prefix does not exist.
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.It Bq Er EACCES
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Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix,
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or write permission is denied
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on the parent directory of the directory to be created.
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.It Bq Er ELOOP
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Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
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.It Bq Er EPERM
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The parent directory of the directory to be created has its immutable flag set,
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see the
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.Xr chflags 2
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manual page for more information.
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.It Bq Er EROFS
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The named directory would reside on a read-only file system.
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.It Bq Er EEXIST
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The named file exists.
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.It Bq Er ENOSPC
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The new directory cannot be created because there is no space left
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on the file system that will contain the directory.
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.It Bq Er ENOSPC
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There are no free inodes on the file system on which the
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directory is being created.
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.It Bq Er EDQUOT
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The new directory cannot be created because the user's
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quota of disk blocks on the file system that will
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contain the directory has been exhausted.
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.It Bq Er EDQUOT
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The user's quota of inodes on the file system on
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which the directory is being created has been exhausted.
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.It Bq Er EIO
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An I/O error occurred while making the directory entry or allocating the inode.
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.It Bq Er EIO
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An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system.
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.It Bq Er EFAULT
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The
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.Fa path
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argument
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points outside the process's allocated address space.
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr chflags 2 ,
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.Xr chmod 2 ,
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.Xr stat 2 ,
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.Xr umask 2
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.Sh STANDARDS
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The
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.Fn mkdir
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system call is expected to conform to
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.St -p1003.1-90 .
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