Create the directory with permissions as indicated by mode. mode
can be of any form accepted by chmod(1). Symbolic modes are relative to an initial mode of a=rwx.
The working of mkdir is not influenced by any environment variables.
mkdir does not have any known bugs.
This implementation of mkdir is compatible with the OpenBSD
implementation, and is expected to be compatible with the
IEEE Std1003.2 aka POSIX.2 implementation.
$Log: mkdir,v $
Revision 1.3 1999/03/09 02:53:25 abigail
Removed the comparison of $dir to '.' and '/', as that's non-portable.
All we need to do is checking for a fixed point.
Revision 1.2 1999/03/09 02:44:57 abigail
Fixed SybolicMode -> SymbolicMode typo.
Revision 1.1 1999/03/09 02:27:17 abigail
Initial revision
The Perl implementation of mkdir was written by Abigail, abigail@fnx.com.
This program is copyright by Abigail 1999.
This program is free and open software. You may use, copy, modify,
distribute, and sell this program (and any modified variants) in any way
you wish, provided you do not restrict others from doing the same.