Hello Jasen!

Replying to a message of Jasen Betts to Neil Heller:

 JB> Hi Neil.

 JB> 24-Jul-03 09:23:00, Neil Heller wrote to Jasen Betts


 JB>>> mkdir() made it into Posix, so it should be availavble on most
 JB>>> platforms that support that sort of behavior.... (eg not
 JB>>> available on CP/M)

 JB>>> note also that mkdir will fail if there's already a file with a
 JB>>> name like the directory you want to create, or may fail for other
 JB>>> resons too...

 NH>> Other reasons?  Aside from hardware failure, what might they be?

 JB> disk space, read only media, no (network) permission, no more room in
 JB> root directory, possibly some more I've forgotten.

Parent directory doesn't exist (mkdir only creates one directory, not all of them).

Darin
dmcbride{at}tower.to.org

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