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| author | Tony Cook <tony@develop-help.com> | 2022-06-22 10:17:57 +1000 |
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| committer | James E Keenan <jkeenan@cpan.org> | 2022-06-27 08:43:00 -0400 |
| commit | c25af7d9772eae07700757f7061ca84e56c5c058 (patch) | |
| tree | 635569ec7cdb5b5cc4ee92089453e9fee70e7684 /pod/perlfunc.pod | |
| parent | e7267d71c4a94e4cd0826cb547a7ff13df23a22f (diff) | |
| download | perl-c25af7d9772eae07700757f7061ca84e56c5c058.tar.gz | |
point out that non-permission bits for mkdir's mode are non-portable
In particular the sticky bit may or may not be set by the system
mkdir() implementation.
Fixes #12082
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diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index 2c27a747f9..3c19950bb5 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -4326,6 +4326,8 @@ a restrictive MODE and give the user no way to be more permissive. The exceptions to this rule are when the file or directory should be kept private (mail files, for instance). The documentation for L<C<umask>|/umask EXPR> discusses the choice of MODE in more detail. +If bits in MODE other than the permission bits are set, the result may +be implementation defined, per POSIX 1003.1-2008. Note that according to the POSIX 1003.1-1996 the FILENAME may have any number of trailing slashes. Some operating and filesystems do not get |