Ariel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > -p does not use the mode from -m for parent directories: > > # mkdir -p -m 700 foo/bar > # ls -ld foo foo/bar
This works as documented. The -m switch only modifies the permissions of the leaf directory, the parent directories are created with only the umask taken into account. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
