[PLUG] how to adjust for special characters in mkdir() function?

[logical american]

  On 10/1/2010 6:14 PM, Galen Seitz wrote:
> logical american wrote:
>>    Quick question:
>>
>> I am trying to use the mkdir() command from sys/stat.h library, but it
>> is blowing up when the directory name has some type of character in it,
>> such as a space character or hyphen.
>>
>> What is the command to fix this?  Is activating UTF-8 characters what is
>> needed?  I am using the C++.c_str() to supply the directory name, should
>> I use some IOMANIP function to fix this?
>>
>> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/mkdir.html
>> doesn't have anything on this, but I do get the ENOENT error.
> What arguments are you passing to mkdir()?  Do all elements of the
> path leading up to the new directory name exist?  The following
> program works for me.
>
>
> #include<sys/stat.h>
> #include<sys/types.h>
>
> main()
> {
>           mkdir("/tmp/foo bar-baz", 0777);
> }
>
I have the directory as "/home/myname/Desktop/Items/GPS Summary Files" 
so there are two space characters in the path name.