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authorTodd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org>2017-03-23 18:40:02 +0000
committerTodd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org>2017-03-23 18:40:02 +0000
commit85da9be236df0691c51d8825248ede04861d7074 (patch)
tree1eca71cb7d62f2af6e1e08065b568458e5090158 /lib/libc
parentf70f3fecfd75aa0b0ba482b016c9430a2ea8c28f (diff)
mkdir(2) and mkdirat(2) can also fail with EACCESS if write permission
is denied on the parent directory of the directory to be created. From FreeBSD. OK deraadt@ natano@
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/sys/mkdir.28
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/mkdir.2 b/lib/libc/sys/mkdir.2
index 970c9dd0680..f080bacf051 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/mkdir.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/mkdir.2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: mkdir.2,v 1.17 2015/09/10 17:55:21 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: mkdir.2,v 1.18 2017/03/23 18:40:01 millert 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: September 10 2015 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: March 23 2017 $
.Dt MKDIR 2
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -101,7 +101,9 @@ bytes.
.It Bq Er ENOENT
A component of the path prefix does not exist.
.It Bq Er EACCES
-Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix.
+Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix,
+or write permission is denied
+on the parent directory of the directory to be created.
.It Bq Er ELOOP
Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
.It Bq Er EROFS