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.Dd July 13, 2011
.Dt mkpath_np 3
.Os "Mac OS X"
.Sh NAME
.Nm mkpath_np
.Nd Auxiliary routine for efficiently creating paths
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Fd #include <unistd.h>
.\"
.Ft int
.Fo mkpath_np
.Fa "const char * path"
.Fa "mode_t omode"
.Fc
.Sh DESCRIPTION
This routine allows the caller to create a path, including intermediate
directories.  It is equivalent to calling
.Xr mkdir 1
with the -p command line argument.
.Pp
Intermediate directories are created with permission bits of rwxrwxrwx (0777)
as modified by the current umask, plus write and search permission for the
owner.
.Pp
The leaf directory is created with permission bits of
.Fa omode
as modified by the current umask.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
A 0 return value indicates success.  If an error occurs, the return value is a
non-zero error code.  Note that EEXIST is returned iff the leaf directory
already exists and is a directory, so under certain circumstances, this error
value may not indicate a failure state.
.Pp
This routine does NOT modify errno.
.Sh ERRORS
Any error code that can be returned by
.Xr mkdir 2
can be returned by
.Fn mkpath_np ,
but
.Fn mkpath_np
will return the error code rather than setting errno.
.Bl -tag -width Er
.\" ==========
.It Bq Er ENOTDIR
A component of the path is not a directory (in contrast to
.Xr mkdir 2
which returns this based on the path prefix rather than the path).
.\" ==========
.It Bq Er EEXIST
The path already exists and is a directory.
.El
.Sh HISTORY
This function first appeared in
iOS 5.0.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr mkdir 1 ,
.Xr chmod 2 ,
.Xr mkdir 2