Subject: bug#34009: warn that mkdir --mode doesn't affect parents created

From: Assaf Gordon <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 01:49:50 -0700

severity 34009 wishlist
retitle 34009 doc: mkdir: warn that --mode doesn't affect parents
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Hello,

On 2019-01-07 8:36 a.m., 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> 
> do warn that --mode doesn't affect any parents created.
> 
> $ mkdir --mode 700 -p /tmp/g/h/i
> $ find /tmp/g -ls
>      55795      0 drwxr-xr-x   3 jidanni  jidanni        60 Jan  7 23:30 /tmp/g
>      55796      0 drwxr-xr-x   3 jidanni  jidanni        60 Jan  7 23:30 /tmp/g/h
>      55797      0 drwx------   2 jidanni  jidanni        40 Jan  7 23:30 /tmp/g/h/i
> 
> Also warn on (info "(coreutils) mkdir invocation") more directly. Thanks.

The info manual does contain a short sentence about parents' modes:
  "To set the file permission bits of any newly-created parent
   directories to a value [...]"

But this can be improved.

Marking as wishlist. Patches are welcomed.

regards,
  - assaf'