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MKDIR(2)                   Linux Programmer's Manual                  MKDIR(2)

NAME
       mkdir - create a directory
SYNOPSIS
       #include <sys/stat.h>
       #include <sys/types.h>
       int mkdir(const char *pathname, mode_t mode);
DESCRIPTION
       mkdir() attempts to create a directory named pathname.
       The  argument mode specifies the permissions to use.  It is modified by
       the process's umask in the usual way: the permissions  of  the  created
       directory  are  (mode & ~umask & 0777).  Other mode bits of the created
       directory depend on the operating system.  For Linux, see below.
       The newly created directory will be owned by the effective user  ID  of
       the process.  If the directory containing the file has the set-group-ID
       bit set, or if the file system is  mounted  with  BSD  group  semantics
       (mount -o bsdgroups or, synonymously mount -o grpid), the new directory
       will inherit the group ownership from its parent; otherwise it will  be
       owned by the effective group ID of the process.
       If  the  parent directory has the set-group-ID bit set then so will the
       newly created directory.
RETURN VALUE
       mkdir() returns zero on success, or -1 if an error occurred  (in  which
       case, errno is set appropriately).
ERRORS
       EACCES The  parent  directory  does  not  allow write permission to the
              process, or one of the directories in  pathname  did  not  allow
              search permission.  (See also path_resolution(7).)
       EDQUOT The user's quota of disk blocks or inodes on the file system has
              been exhausted.
       EEXIST pathname already exists (not necessarily as a directory).   This
              includes the case where pathname is a symbolic link, dangling or
              not.
       EFAULT pathname points outside your accessible address space.
       ELOOP  Too many symbolic links were encountered in resolving pathname.
       EMLINK The number  of  links  to  the  parent  directory  would  exceed
              LINK_MAX.
       ENAMETOOLONG
              pathname was too long.
       ENOENT A  directory  component  in pathname does not exist or is a dan-
              gling symbolic link.
       ENOMEM Insufficient kernel memory was available.
       ENOSPC The device containing pathname has no room for  the  new  direc-
              tory.
       ENOSPC The  new  directory  cannot  be  created because the user's disk
              quota is exhausted.
       ENOTDIR
              A component used as a directory in pathname is not, in  fact,  a
              directory.
       EPERM  The  file  system  containing pathname does not support the cre-
              ation of directories.
       EROFS  pathname refers to a file on a read-only file system.
CONFORMING TO
       SVr4, BSD, POSIX.1-2001.
NOTES
       Under Linux apart from the permission bits, only the S_ISVTX  mode  bit
       is  honored.   That is, under Linux the created directory actually gets
       mode (mode & ~umask & 01777).  See also stat(2).
       There are many infelicities in the protocol underlying  NFS.   Some  of
       these affect mkdir().
SEE ALSO
       mkdir(1), chmod(2), chown(2), mkdirat(2), mknod(2), mount(2), rmdir(2),
       stat(2), umask(2), unlink(2), path_resolution(7)
COLOPHON
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       description  of  the project, and information about reporting bugs, can
       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

Linux                             2013-01-27                          MKDIR(2)