Hi Paul, My use case is working in a directory shared amongst a group of users. My umask is 022. I run mkdir -pm775 project/subproject and I'd like both project and project/subproject to be group-writable.
Cheers, Shaun On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 22:04 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 05/30/11 10:29, Shaun Jackman wrote: > > When using mkdir > > -pm, the specified mode is applied only to the final directory and not > > the parent directories > > That behavior is required by POSIX; see > <http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/mkdir.html>. > > Perhaps an argument could be made for a new option, which would > have the behavior you'd prefer; it'd be nice to see use cases.
