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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