From: Seth McDonald <sethmcmail@pm.me>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2026 12:29:31 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: man/man2/mkdir.2: HISTORY: Update BSD and POSIX appearances of mkdir(2)
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man/man2/mkdir.2: HISTORY: Update BSD and POSIX appearances of mkdir(2)

mkdir(2) seems to have appeared in 4.2BSD with the system call number
136, as seen in the system's /usr/src/sys/sys/syscalls.c file.[1]  The
function also appeared in POSIX.1-1988.[2]

[1] Spinellis, Diomidis (5 Jan 2026).  Unix History Repository (Git
repository).  Tag "BSD-4_2".
<https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/tree/BSD-4_2>
[2] IEEE Std 1003.1-1988, Section 5.4.1 "Make a Directory".

Signed-off-by: Seth McDonald <sethmcmail@pm.me>
Message-ID: <347e36c11666dc28a3c00227ae5c513bd427e680.1769429341.git.sethmcmail@pm.me>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
---

diff --git a/man/man2/mkdir.2 b/man/man2/mkdir.2
index 59c6dc29e..f95c9c7d0 100644
--- a/man/man2/mkdir.2
+++ b/man/man2/mkdir.2
@@ -233,7 +233,9 @@ POSIX.1-2024.
 .SH HISTORY
 .TP
 .BR mkdir ()
-SVr4, BSD, POSIX.1-2001.
+4.2BSD,
+SVr4,
+POSIX.1-1988.
 .\" SVr4 documents additional EIO, EMULTIHOP
 .TP
 .BR mkdirat ()