[PLUG] how to adjust for special characters in mkdir() function?
logical american
website.reader3 at gmail.com
Sat Oct 2 02:02:23 UTC 2010
> 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);
> }
>
Galen:
Try to make a directory with two depths, mkdir("/tmp/deeper/foo bar-baz
bam", 0777); and see if that fails. I have been playing around with the
directory depth and my program fails with two slash characters in the path.
Randall
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