On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 10:07:43AM -0600, Todd C. Miller wrote: > From FreeBSD, POSIX has identical wording. > > Alternately, we could add an extra EACCESS entry similar to what > exists in open(2). I'm happy with either approach.
OK natano@. I think using one entry is fine in this case as both conditions are related to path resolution. > > - todd > > Index: lib/libc/sys/mkdir.2 > =================================================================== > RCS file: /cvs/src/lib/libc/sys/mkdir.2,v > retrieving revision 1.17 > diff -u -p -u -r1.17 mkdir.2 > --- lib/libc/sys/mkdir.2 10 Sep 2015 17:55:21 -0000 1.17 > +++ lib/libc/sys/mkdir.2 23 Mar 2017 16:05:00 -0000 > @@ -101,7 +101,9 @@ bytes. > .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. > +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 EROFS >
