BSD 4_3 release

[unix-history] / usr / man / man2 / mkdir.2

diff --git a/usr/man/man2/mkdir.2 b/usr/man/man2/mkdir.2
index 1af49d2..da26e1e 100644 (file)
--- a/usr/man/man2/mkdir.2
+++ b/usr/man/man2/mkdir.2
@@ -1,4 +1,11 @@
-.TH MKDIR 2 2/13/83
+.\" Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California.
+.\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
+.\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
+.\"
+.\"    @(#)mkdir.2     6.4 (Berkeley) 8/26/85
+.\"
+.TH MKDIR 2 "August 26, 1985"
+.UC 5

 .SH NAME
 mkdir \- make a directory file
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .SH NAME
 mkdir \- make a directory file
 .SH SYNOPSIS


@@ -12,7 +19,7 @@ int mode;
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .I Mkdir
 creates a new directory file with name
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .I Mkdir
 creates a new directory file with name

-.I path.
+.IR path .

 The mode of the new file
 is initialized from
 .IR mode .
 The mode of the new file
 is initialized from
 .IR mode .


@@ -21,7 +28,8 @@ is modified by the process's mode mask; see
 .IR umask (2)).
 .PP
 The directory's owner ID is set to the process's effective user ID.
 .IR umask (2)).
 .PP
 The directory's owner ID is set to the process's effective user ID.

-THe directory's group ID is set to the process's effective groups ID.
+The directory's group ID is set to that of the parent directory in
+which it is created.

 .PP
 The low-order 9 bits of mode are modified by the process's
 file mode creation mask: all bits set in the process's file mode
 .PP
 The low-order 9 bits of mode are modified by the process's
 file mode creation mask: all bits set in the process's file mode


@@ -35,32 +43,71 @@ indicates an error, and an error code is stored in
 .I Mkdir
 will fail and no directory will be created if:
 .TP 15
 .I Mkdir
 will fail and no directory will be created if:
 .TP 15

-[EPERM]
-The process's effective user ID is not super-user.
-.TP 15
-[EPERM]
-The pathname contains a non-ASCII byte.
-.TP 15

 [ENOTDIR]
 A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
 .TP 15
 [ENOTDIR]
 A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
 .TP 15

+[EINVAL]
+The pathname contains a character with the high-order bit set.
+.TP 15
+[ENAMETOOLONG]
+A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters,
+or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.
+.TP 15

 [ENOENT]
 A component of the path prefix does not exist.
 .TP 15
 [ENOENT]
 A component of the path prefix does not exist.
 .TP 15

+[EACCES]
+Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix.
+.TP 15
+[ELOOP]
+Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
+.TP 15
+[EPERM]
+The \fIpath\fP argument contains a byte with the high-order bit set.
+.TP 15

 [EROFS]
 The named file resides on a read-only file system.
 .TP 15
 [EEXIST]
 The named file exists.
 .TP 15
 [EROFS]
 The named file resides on a read-only file system.
 .TP 15
 [EEXIST]
 The named file exists.
 .TP 15

-[EFAULT]
-.I Path
-points outside the process's allocated address space.
+[ENOSPC]
+The directory in which the entry for the new directory is being placed
+cannot be extended because there is no space left on the file
+system containing the directory.

 .TP 15
 .TP 15

-[ELOOP]
-Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
+[ENOSPC]
+The new directory cannot be created because there
+there is no space left on the file
+system that will contain the directory.
+.TP 15
+[ENOSPC]
+There are no free inodes on the file system on which the
+directory is being created.
+.TP 15
+[EDQUOT]
+The directory in which the entry for the new directory
+is being placed cannot be extended because the
+user's quota of disk blocks on the file system
+containing the directory has been exhausted.
+.TP 15
+[EDQUOT]
+The new directory cannot be created because the user's
+quota of disk blocks on the file system that will
+contain the directory has been exhausted.
+.TP 15
+[EDQUOT]
+The user's quota of inodes on the file system on
+which the directory is being created has been exhausted.

 .TP 15
 [EIO]
 .TP 15
 [EIO]

-An i/o error occured while writing to the file system.
+An I/O error occurred while making the directory entry or allocating the inode.
+.TP 15
+[EIO]
+An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system.
+.TP 15
+[EFAULT]
+.I Path
+points outside the process's allocated address space.

 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 .SH "SEE ALSO"

-chmod(2), mkdir(2), stat(2), umask(2)
+chmod(2), stat(2), umask(2)