system (and mkdir)

Jay Maynard jay at splut.UUCP
Mon Feb 1 02:47:05 AEST 1988


In article <224 at intelisc.UUCP>, shannon at intelisc.UUCP (Shannon Nelson) writes:
> I may be showing my ignorance, but what ever happened to the mkdir()
> call?  In my manuals (Xenix, sysVr3, Pyramid OSx) [...]
                                   ^^
> [...]  Given this, and the overhead inherent in system(), why are you
> not using mkdir()?

My SVr2 doesn't have it, and I suspect that lots of other Unixes (Unix?
Unices? What _is_ the plural of Unix, anyway?) don't either.

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