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| author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-02-20 17:50:38 +0000 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-02-20 17:50:38 +0000 |
| commit | 5a211162cd360449f2dbfb7ca9231c025909353f (patch) | |
| tree | cb1e381023629ae2b3d383210f275f479afdb348 /pod/perlfunc.pod | |
| parent | 649da0762311e9a19091946020dc56feadc1378c (diff) | |
| download | perl-5a211162cd360449f2dbfb7ca9231c025909353f.tar.gz | |
default mkdir() mode argument to 0777
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5164
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index 6b47fc7a41..5de9dc7947 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -2417,9 +2417,12 @@ the original list for which the BLOCK or EXPR evaluates to true. =item mkdir FILENAME,MASK +=item mkdir FILENAME + Creates the directory specified by FILENAME, with permissions specified by MASK (as modified by C<umask>). If it succeeds it returns true, otherwise it returns false and sets C<$!> (errno). +If omitted, MASK defaults to 0777. In general, it is better to create directories with permissive MASK, and let the user modify that with their C<umask>, than it is to supply |