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authorMaxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>2021-11-16 11:06:29 +0000
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2022-10-21 17:40:37 +0200
commitf018e0d486b8ec6b6fc78346534f71af6216614a (patch)
tree63ede5eb718ac71c6db55db8dca5709d971270dd
parent58ddd5c7bc3907c1f1e4dd9637d996c4d72eaba0 (diff)
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Correct documentation of ‘mkdir’ w.r.t. the umask.
* doc/ref/posix.texi (mkdir): Note that the umask is applied even if the mode argument is set. Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
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diff --git a/doc/ref/posix.texi b/doc/ref/posix.texi
index 642b84bee..93bb4d459 100644
--- a/doc/ref/posix.texi
+++ b/doc/ref/posix.texi
@@ -920,7 +920,8 @@ the directory referred to by the file port @var{dir}.
Create a new directory named by @var{path}. If @var{mode} is omitted
then the permissions of the directory are set to @code{#o777}
masked with the current umask (@pxref{Processes, @code{umask}}).
-Otherwise they are set to the value specified with @var{mode}.
+Otherwise they are set to the value specified with @var{mode}
+masked with the current umask.
The return value is unspecified.
@end deffn