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From: crs@cpsc6b.cpsc6a.att.com (Chris (Is it Friday yet?!?!?) Seaman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: system (and mkdir)
Summary: There is another reason.
Message-ID: <449@cpsc6b.cpsc6a.att.com>
Date: 29 Jan 88 18:24:15 GMT
References: <127@dcrbg1.UUCP> <9472@ccicpg.UUCP> <2771@cbdkc1.ATT.COM>, <1988Jan25.162520.22248@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: AT&T (CPSC), Oakland, CA
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In article henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
< > 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.
< -- 
< Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology

Actually, there is not much reason for worrying about whether or not
there is a library function for mkdir on most (all?) System V boxes,
since the mkdir system call is reserved for the super user alone.  In the
standard System V world, you will find that even the 'mkdir' command is
setuid to root.

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