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MKDIR(2)		    BSD System Calls Manual		      MKDIR(2)

NAME
     mkdir, mkdirat — make a directory file

LIBRARY
     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <sys/stat.h>

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

     int
     mkdirat(int fd, const char *path, mode_t mode);

DESCRIPTION
     The directory path is created with the access permissions specified by
     mode and restricted by the umask(2) of the calling process.

     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.

     The mkdirat() system call is equivalent to mkdir() except in the case
     where path specifies a relative path.  In this case the newly created
     directory is created relative to the directory associated with the file
     descriptor fd instead of the current working directory.  If mkdirat() is
     passed the special value AT_FDCWD in the fd parameter, the current work‐
     ing directory is used and the behavior is identical to a call to mkdir().

RETURN VALUES
     The mkdir() function returns the value 0 if successful; otherwise the
     value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the
     error.

ERRORS
     The mkdir() system call will fail and no directory will be created if:

     [ENOTDIR]		A component of the path prefix is not a directory.

     [ENAMETOOLONG]	A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters, or
			an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.

     [ENOENT]		A component of the path prefix does not exist.

     [EACCES]		Search permission is denied for a component of the
			path prefix, or write permission is denied on the par‐
			ent directory of the directory to be created.

     [ELOOP]		Too many symbolic links were encountered in translat‐
			ing the pathname.

     [EPERM]		The parent directory of the directory to be created
			has its immutable flag set, see the chflags(2) manual
			page for more information.

     [EROFS]		The named directory would reside on a read-only file
			system.

     [EMLINK]		The new directory cannot be created because the parent
			directory contains too many subdirectories.

     [EEXIST]		The named file exists.

     [ENOSPC]		The new directory cannot be created because there is
			no space left on the file system that will contain the
			directory.

     [ENOSPC]		There are no free inodes on the file system on which
			the directory is being created.

     [EDQUOT]		The new directory cannot be created because the user's
			quota of disk blocks on the file system that will con‐
			tain the directory has been exhausted.

     [EDQUOT]		The user's quota of inodes on the file system on which
			the directory is being created has been exhausted.

     [EIO]		An I/O error occurred while making the directory entry
			or allocating the inode.

     [EIO]		An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to
			the file system.

     [EFAULT]		The path argument points outside the process's allo‐
			cated address space.

     In addition to the errors returned by the mkdir(), the mkdirat() may fail
     if:

     [EBADF]		The path argument does not specify an absolute path
			and the fd argument is neither AT_FDCWD nor a valid
			file descriptor open for searching.

     [ENOTDIR]		The path argument is not an absolute path and fd is
			neither AT_FDCWD nor a file descriptor associated with
			a directory.

SEE ALSO
     chflags(2), chmod(2), stat(2), umask(2)

STANDARDS
     The mkdir() system call is expected to conform to ISO/IEC 9945-1:1990
     (“POSIX.1”).  The mkdirat() system call follows The Open Group Extended
     API Set 2 specification.

HISTORY
     The mkdirat() system call appeared in FreeBSD 8.0.

BSD				 June 26, 2008				   BSD
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