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diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/mkdir.2 b/lib/libc/sys/mkdir.2 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..94317d6 --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/libc/sys/mkdir.2 @@ -0,0 +1,118 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)mkdir.2 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/11/93 +.\" $FreeBSD$ +.\" +.Dd December 9, 2006 +.Dt MKDIR 2 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm mkdir +.Nd make a directory file +.Sh LIBRARY +.Lb libc +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.In sys/types.h +.In sys/stat.h +.Ft int +.Fn mkdir "const char *path" "mode_t mode" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The directory +.Fa path +is created with the access permissions specified by +.Fa mode +and restricted by the +.Xr umask 2 +of the calling process. +.Pp +The directory's owner ID is set to the process's effective user ID. +The directory's group ID is set to that of the parent directory in +which it is created. +.Sh RETURN VALUES +.Rv -std mkdir +.Sh ERRORS +The +.Fn mkdir +system call +will fail and no directory will be created if: +.Bl -tag -width Er +.It Bq Er ENOTDIR +A component of the path prefix is not a directory. +.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG +A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters, +or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters. +.It Bq Er ENOENT +A component of the path prefix does not exist. +.It Bq Er EACCES +Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix, +or write permission is denied +on the parent directory of the directory to be created. +.It Bq Er ELOOP +Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname. +.It Bq Er EPERM +The parent directory of the directory to be created has its immutable flag set, +see the +.Xr chflags 2 +manual page for more information. +.It Bq Er EROFS +The named directory would reside on a read-only file system. +.It Bq Er EEXIST +The named file exists. +.It Bq Er ENOSPC +The new directory cannot be created because there is no space left +on the file system that will contain the directory. +.It Bq Er ENOSPC +There are no free inodes on the file system on which the +directory is being created. +.It Bq Er EDQUOT +The new directory cannot be created because the user's +quota of disk blocks on the file system that will +contain the directory has been exhausted. +.It Bq Er EDQUOT +The user's quota of inodes on the file system on +which the directory is being created has been exhausted. +.It Bq Er EIO +An I/O error occurred while making the directory entry or allocating the inode. +.It Bq Er EIO +An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system. +.It Bq Er EFAULT +The +.Fa path +argument +points outside the process's allocated address space. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr chflags 2 , +.Xr chmod 2 , +.Xr stat 2 , +.Xr umask 2 +.Sh STANDARDS +The +.Fn mkdir +system call is expected to conform to +.St -p1003.1-90 . |