Message-ID: <004c01bfca1b$5156bd30$293f8589@gv015029.bgo.nera.no>
From: "Gisle Vanem" <gvanem AT eunet DOT no>
To: "djgpp" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: mkdir and /dev/env
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 11:42:04 +0200
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Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

I am having troubles with mkdir() and and paths containing the
"/dev/env/FOO" syntax. 

With  "$YAFC=\yafc", this code fails:

if (mkdir ("/dev/env/YAFC", S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR|S_IXUSR) != 0) 
  perror("");

The mode is '0400 | 0200 | 0100' = 0700 (octal)

Is that supposed to work?

Gisle V.