Re: mkdir, mkdir_p in FileUtils and mode

Hi,

  In mail "mkdir, mkdir_p in FileUtils and mode"
    Florian Frank <[e-mail]> wrote:

> if I get this correct, the methods in FileUtils are supposed to mirror
> the unix shell commands.

Yes.


> In shell mkdir can be used in this way:
> 
> (flori@lambda:flori 0)$ mkdir -m 2750 foo
> (flori@lambda:flori 0)$ ls -ld foo
> drwxr-s---  2 flori flori 4096 Dec  3  2004 foo
> 
> But if I do
>   >> FileUtils::mkdir 'foo', :mode => 02750
> 
> the s-bit is silently ignored, because the mkdir libc function and thus
> Dir::mkdir ignores some bits depending  on
> the used operation system.

Which operating system are you using?


> Perhaps Dir::mkdir should be portable in Ruby and not rely on the
> operating system's behaviour? Or is it more important to make the
> original libc mkdir available in Dir class?

It seems that ruby ignores `mode' argument on Win32 systems
(Because mkdir(2) does not take 2nd argument there).


Regards,
Minero Aoki