[email protected] (David Laight) writes: >Actually I think you'll find that mkdir way always a system call. >It was directory rename that was done with a series of link and >unlink system calls.
mkdir(1) did a sequence of mknod,chown,link,link if you believe the public sys3 sources. According to pubs.opengroup.org, the mkdir system call originated in 4.2BSD.
