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doc: document mkdir -m -p better
authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Tue, 15 Dec 2020 19:52:19 +0000 (11:52 -0800)
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Tue, 15 Dec 2020 19:58:48 +0000 (11:58 -0800)
commit3e61d5dd315be3aa1982b66b4e137564c61c849f
tree3cdbfac92c0c626476d2ab3f1cb51ebfb3096ee8
parent567fc2c2ad7b70d9c053413bd1a918f93bc41670
doc: document mkdir -m -p better

Chris Colohan wrote that the man page did not do enough to dispel
a common misunderstanding that “contributed to one of the scariest
outages Google has ever seen” (Bug#45258).
* doc/coreutils.texi (mkdir invocation):
* src/mkdir.c (usage): Document -m vs -p better.
doc/coreutils.texi
src/mkdir.c