Re: mkdir -pm bug?

[Pádraig Brady]

On 04/27/2012 12:52 PM, Henrikki Almusa wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a situation where I want to create with a script a directory path 
> based on input. The mkdir -p allows this nicely. However since I want to 
> enforce certain permissions on it I thought that I can use mkdir -pm<mode> to 
> create this. However it seems that when using both options, the parent 
> directories created won't get the --mode given, but instead use the default 
> mask. Is this intentional as I would think it as bug?
> 
> $ mkdir -pm0700 baz/bar
> $ ls -lhd baz/ baz/bar
> drwxrwxr-x 3 [user] [group] 4.0K 2012-04-27 14:47 baz/
> drwx------ 2 [user] [group] 4.0K 2012-04-27 14:47 baz/bar
> $ mkdir --version
> mkdir (GNU coreutils) 8.5
> Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

This was discussed previously:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2011-05/msg00071.html

cheers,
Pádraig.