From: ts Date: 2003-01-13T21:58:51+09:00 Subject: instruby.rb Apparently instruby.rb use fileutils rather than ftools, consequence pigeon% ls -ld aa bb ls: aa: No such file or directory ls: bb: No such file or directory pigeon% pigeon% ruby -rfileutils -ve 'File.umask(0); FileUtils.mkdir("aa")' ruby 1.8.0 (2003-01-12) [i686-linux] pigeon% pigeon% ruby -rftools.rb -ve 'File.umask(0); File.makedirs("bb")' ruby 1.8.0 (2003-01-12) [i686-linux] pigeon% pigeon% ls -ld aa bb drwxrwsrwx 2 ts ts 1024 Jan 13 13:52 aa/ drwxr-sr-x 2 ts ts 1024 Jan 13 13:53 bb/ pigeon% it's normal ? Guy Decoux