wait4path(1) [osx man page]

WAIT4PATH(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 					      WAIT4PATH(1)

NAME

     wait4path -- wait for given path to show up in the namespace

SYNOPSIS

     wait4path <path>

DESCRIPTION

     The wait4path program simply checks to see if the given path exists, and if so, it exits. Otherwise, it sleeps until the mount table is
     updated and checks again. The program will loop indefinitely until the path shows up in the file system namespace.

Mac OS X 10.4							   April 6, 2004						     Mac OS X 10.4

mkpath_np(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 					      mkpath_np(3)

NAME

     mkpath_np -- Auxiliary routine for efficiently creating paths

SYNOPSIS

     #include <unistd.h>

     int
     mkpath_np(const char * path, mode_t omode);

DESCRIPTION

     This routine allows the caller to create a path, including intermediate directories.  It is equivalent to calling mkdir(1) with the -p com-
     mand line argument.

     Intermediate directories are created with permission bits of rwxrwxrwx (0777) as modified by the current umask, plus write and search permis-
     sion for the owner.

     The leaf directory is created with permission bits of omode as modified by the current umask.

RETURN VALUES

     A 0 return value indicates success.  If an error occurs, the return value is a non-zero error code.  Note that EEXIST is returned iff the
     leaf directory already exists and is a directory, so under certain circumstances, this error value may not indicate a failure state.

     This routine does NOT modify errno.

ERRORS

     Any error code that can be returned by mkdir(2) can be returned by mkpath_np(), but mkpath_np() will return the error code rather than set-
     ting errno.

     [ENOTDIR]		A component of the path is not a directory (in contrast to mkdir(2) which returns this based on the path prefix rather
			than the path).

     [EEXIST]		The path already exists and is a directory.

HISTORY

     This function first appeared in iOS 5.0.

SEE ALSO

     mkdir(1), chmod(2), mkdir(2)

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