mkdir plots (was: mkdir() and security hole)

[Brandon S. Allbery]

As quoted from <1849 at piraat.cs.vu.nl> by maart at cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath):
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| However, I think it very improbable that symbolic links exist on systems
| WITHOUT the mkdir() system call.
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Wrong.  I have seen Xenixes and SVR2's which lack mkdir() but have symlink().
It's usually added with some form of networking, for which its use is
intended.

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