On 10/1/2010 10:34 PM, Galen Seitz wrote: > logical american wrote: >> Ironically mkdir -p does create a full path directory with multiple >> slashes, I am using it right now in a shell script program. But >> apparently mkdir() won't > As Daniel says, mkdir(2) only creates a single directory at a time. > mkdir(2) is little more than a wrapper around the mkdir system call. > To see what a command like mkdir -p does, try something like this: > > strace mkdir -p /tmp/a/b/c > > My solution will be to parse the directory path and split it into each directory and make them one at a time. Just a little more code to add, but now I know what's going on.
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