bug#45258: mkdir man page unclear in describing -m flag

2020-12-15 Thread Chris Colohan
Looks great, thank you so much! Chris On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 12:00 PM Paul Eggert wrote: > Thanks for your bug report. I installed the attached patch; although it > doesn't use the exact wording you proposed, I hope it works well enough. >

bug#45258: mkdir man page unclear in describing -m flag

2020-12-15 Thread Chris Colohan
I like to present a challenge to my software engineer friends: can you tell me what this command does on Linux, if run in an empty directory? mkdir -m 0755 -p ./usr/bin/foo If they read the mkdir man page ( https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/mkdir.1.html), they almost always say the answer