mkdir(2) (was Re: Two links to a directory?)

[Chris Torek]

In article <1175 at mwtech.UUCP> martin at mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel) writes:
>There is no mkdir(2) system call in some older variants of UNIX. (I think
>it was not in V7 and probably also not in SysIII, though some companies
>who used SysIII as porting base might have added it; I don't know about
>BSD either.)

The mkdir system call (not to be confused with the mkdir program) first
appeared in 4.2BSD.%  It was not added to System V until recently; the
exact date depends on whose `System V' you use (consider it nonstandard).
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% It may have been in 4.1a, 4.1b, or 4.1c, but it was not in 4.1 and none
  of the others were widely released.
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