Directories are created with the mkdir
function. (There is also
a shell command mkdir
which does the same thing.)
int
mkdir (const char *filename, mode_t mode)
¶Preliminary: | MT-Safe | AS-Safe | AC-Safe | See POSIX Safety Concepts.
The mkdir
function creates a new, empty directory with name
filename.
The argument mode specifies the file permissions for the new directory file. See The Mode Bits for Access Permission, for more information about this.
A return value of 0
indicates successful completion, and
-1
indicates failure. In addition to the usual file name syntax
errors (see File Name Errors), the following errno
error
conditions are defined for this function:
EACCES
Write permission is denied for the parent directory in which the new directory is to be added.
EEXIST
A file named filename already exists.
EMLINK
The parent directory has too many links (entries).
Well-designed file systems never report this error, because they permit more links than your disk could possibly hold. However, you must still take account of the possibility of this error, as it could result from network access to a file system on another machine.
ENOSPC
The file system doesn’t have enough room to create the new directory.
EROFS
The parent directory of the directory being created is on a read-only file system and cannot be modified.
To use this function, your program should include the header file sys/stat.h.