RTEMS 4.9.5 On-Line Library

Files and Directories Manager mkdir - Makes a directory

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4.4.16: mkdir - Makes a directory

CALLING SEQUENCE:

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>

int mkdir(
  const char *path,
  mode_t      mode
);

STATUS CODES:

EACCES: Search permission is denied for a directory in a file's path prefix
EEXIST: The name file already exist.
EMLINK: The number of links would exceed LINK_MAX
ENAMETOOLONG: Length of a filename string exceeds PATH_MAX and _POSIX_NO_TRUNC is in effect.
ENOENT: A file or directory does not exist.
ENOSPC: No space left on disk.
ENOTDIR: A component of the specified pathname was not a directory when a directory was expected.
EROFS: Read-only file system.

DESCRIPTION:

The mkdir() function creates a new diectory named path. The permission bits (modified by the file creation mask) are set from mode. The owner and group IDs for the directory are set from the effective user ID and group ID.

The new directory may (or may not) contain entries for.. and .. but is otherwise empty.

NOTES:

NONE

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