how to simulate "mkdir -p /home/blah1/blah2/blah3" in "c" where only /home exist


 
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Old 10-06-2009
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Originally Posted by platinumedge
I'm trying to make use of mkdir(char *pathname, S_IRWXU) to create the directories.

but it only creates one directory at a time. so I have to separate the tokens for "/home/blah1/blah2/blah3" as "home blah1 blah2 blah3" using delimiter "/", but it is again hectic to create such directory structure.

I know Linux command "mkdir -p /home/blah1/blah2/blah3" would create all the sub-directories if it doesn't exist.

how to achieve the same "mkdir -p /home/blah1/blah2/blah3" in "c" where only /home exist

I'm using Redhat Linux 9 on Intel board 915GLVG
The best way is probably to iterate and call mkdir and chdir every time.
I'm actually in the process of doing something similar, and that's the way I'll go.
Constructing the (full) path every time is quite annoying, while changing the working
directory should be more easy.

S.
 
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LFC-MKDIR(1)							 LFC User Commands						      LFC-MKDIR(1)

NAME
lfc-mkdir - make LFC directory in the name server SYNOPSIS
lfc-mkdir [-m mode] [-p] path... DESCRIPTION
lfc-mkdir creates the specified LFC directories in the name server. This requires write permission in the parent directory. The owner ID and group ID of the new directories are set to the requestor's real user ID and group ID, respectively. path specifies the LFC pathname. If path does not start with /, it is prefixed by the content of the LFC_HOME environment variable. The lfc-mkdir command has the following options: -m specifies the mode to be used. Default mode is 777. -p creates all the non-existing parent directories first. The mode set for the created intermediate directories is the logical differ- ence between 0777 and the user umask but at least 0300. EXIT STATUS
This program returns 0 if the operation was successful or >0 if the operation failed. SEE ALSO
Castor_limits(4), lfc_chmod(3), lfc_mkdir(3), lfc_umask(3) AUTHOR
LCG Grid Deployment Team LFC
$Date: 2001/10/04 12:12:54 $ LFC-MKDIR(1)