On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Mike Bledig wrote:
> Now if I do this:
> 1118: mkdir(lynx_temp_space /* Error here, 0700*/ ) < 0)
>
> No errors in the build.
>
> By commenting out the extra parameter what would I be leaving out
> of the build of Lynx? what is that extra parameter (0700) suposed
> to do?
it sets permissions on the created directory (on any system that
implements POSIX). M$ implemented mkdir incompatibly because at
the time they had no use for the permissions, though later they
added in win32 a call which does essentially the same thing w/o
correcting the older interface.
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