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| author | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2013-07-17 05:42:12 +0000 |
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| committer | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2013-07-17 05:42:12 +0000 |
| commit | a4c82024e6538bbd6183d6a9a256cba8e7870740 (patch) | |
| tree | b978bd46eea7373d1d2888f8229d6ca8469c0252 /lib/libc/sys/mkdir.2 | |
| parent | d8683ba125e75609c811ff26b7cb140871249970 (diff) | |
more library history
facts checked by sobrado@
style tweaks and ok jmc@
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/sys/mkdir.2')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/sys/mkdir.2 | 29 |
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/mkdir.2 b/lib/libc/sys/mkdir.2 index d1142108bfd..b41a830f26e 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/mkdir.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/mkdir.2 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: mkdir.2,v 1.13 2013/04/01 20:16:31 guenther Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: mkdir.2,v 1.14 2013/07/17 05:42:11 schwarze Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: mkdir.2,v 1.8 1995/02/27 12:34:22 cgd Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991, 1993 @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ .\" .\" @(#)mkdir.2 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/11/93 .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: April 1 2013 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: July 17 2013 $ .Dt MKDIR 2 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -169,11 +169,32 @@ and functions conform to .St -p1003.1-2008 . .Sh HISTORY -The +A .Fn mkdir system call first appeared in .At v1 . +It was renamed to +.Fn makdir +in +.At v2 . +However, it did not exist from +.At v4 +to +.Bx 4.1 ; +in those releases, +.Xr mknod 2 +had to be used. +Since +.Fn mkdir +reappeared in +.Bx 4.1c , +it no longer requires superuser privileges and it automatically creates the +.Sq \&. +and +.Sq \&.. +directory entries. +.Pp The .Fn mkdirat -function appeared in +system call has been available since .Ox 5.0 . |