Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 13:47:19 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Gisle Vanem <giva AT bryggen DOT bgnett DOT no>
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Subject: Re: mkdir and /dev/env/
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On Tue, 30 May 2000, Gisle Vanem wrote:

> With "set 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?

Yes, it is supposed to work.

Does the above call work if you replace "/dev/env/YAFC" with "/yafc"?
If it does, please post the shortest program that exhibits the problem 
with /dev/env, so that others could try reproducing it.

Sorry for asking the obvious, but you *do* use DJGPP v2.03, yes?