From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 22:21:59 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Do not set the permissions of the final directory
X-Git-Tag: FILEUTILS-4_0_32~34
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/index.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=445485d9b834a13b769b06bec85fcedd47ab9432;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

Do not set the permissions of the final directory
component if it was not just created.
Based on a patch from Volker Borchert.
---

diff --git a/src/mkdir.c b/src/mkdir.c
index bc5ad0e68e..398677fafd 100644
--- a/src/mkdir.c
+++ b/src/mkdir.c
@@ -174,7 +174,10 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
 	     This extra step is necessary in some cases when the containing
 	     directory has a default ACL.  */
 
-	  if (fail == 0 && specified_mode)
+	  /* Set the permissions only if this directory has just
+	     been created.  */
+
+	  if (fail == 0 && specified_mode && dir_created)
 	    {
 	      fail = chmod (dir, newmode);
 	      if (fail)