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MKDIR(2)                      System Calls Manual                     MKDIR(2)



NAME
       mkdir, rmdir - make or remove a directory

SYNOPSIS
       mkdir(name, mode)
       char *name;

       rmdir(name)
       char *name;

DESCRIPTION
       Mkdir  creates a new directory whose name is the null-terminated string
       pointed to by name.  The mode of  the  directory  is  initialized  from
       mode,  modified  by the current mode mask (umask(2)).  The directory is
       initialized with two entries: .  points to the directory itself, ..  to
       its parent.

       Rmdir removes the directory name, which must be empty.

SEE ALSO
       mkdir(1), rmdir(1), mknod(2)

DIAGNOSTICS
       Mkdir  returns  0  on success, -1 if the directory already exists or if
       the user has no write permissions in the parent directory.

       Rmdir returns 0 on success, -1 if the directory  doesn't  exist,  isn't
       empty, isn't a directory, or is the root of a filesystem.

BUGS
       Rmdir  will  happily  remove  a  non-empty directory, leaving any files
       therein orphaned.  This is easy to fix, but nobody has bothered.



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