tag 12130 notabug
thanks

On 09/16/2012 05:53 PM, Peter Johansson wrote:

> mkdir -p -m 700 /tmp/foo/bar
> 
> creates bar with permissions 700 and bar with 776 (my umask). I wonder
> is that behaviour is mandated by some standard

Yes - POSIX requires this:

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/mkdir.html

-p
    Create any missing intermediate pathname components.

    For each dir operand that does not name an existing directory,
effects equivalent to those caused by the following command shall occur:

    mkdir -p -m $(umask -S),u+wx $(dirname dir) &&
    mkdir [-m mode] dir

    where the -m mode option represents that option supplied to the
original invocation of mkdir, if any.

> or if there is room for
> improvement in coreutils here (CC:ed).

Since POSIX requires the existing behavior, there's unfortunately no
room for improvement, and I'm closing this as not a bug in coreutils.

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