Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: system (and mkdir) Message-ID: <1988Jan25.162520.22248@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <127@dcrbg1.UUCP> <9472@ccicpg.UUCP> <2771@cbdkc1.ATT.COM>, <224@intelisc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 25-Jan-88 16:25:10 EST > I may be showing my ignorance, but what ever happened to the mkdir() call? Alas, you are showing your ignorance: only some versions of Unix have mkdir() as a system call. Mind you, there is no excuse for not having it as a library function if you don't have the system call, but many older Unixes have neither. -- Those who do not understand Unix are | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology condemned to reinvent it, poorly. | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry