Subject: bug#8749: mkdir: feature request --reference

From: Shaun Jackman <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 11:12:39 -0700

Hi Paul,

My use case is working in a directory shared amongst a group of users.
My umask is 022. I run
mkdir -pm775 project/subproject
and I'd like both project and project/subproject to be group-writable.

Cheers,
Shaun

On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 22:04 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 05/30/11 10:29, Shaun Jackman wrote:
> > When using mkdir
> > -pm, the specified mode is applied only to the final directory and not
> > the parent directories
> 
> That behavior is required by POSIX; see
> <http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/mkdir.html>.
> 
> Perhaps an argument could be made for a new option, which would
> have the behavior you'd prefer; it'd be nice to see use cases.