Re: apparent complexity of mkdir-p module

[Paul Eggert]

On 06/07/2012 05:09 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> I was expecting to find a simple interface

but unfortunately what you found is what's needed
to implement GNU 'mkdir -p'.  Among other things,
the permissions of the parent directories differ
from the permissions of the child directory.  It
of course is possible to come up with a
simpler API, and that might be worthwhile for other
apps, but GNU 'mkdir -p' couldn't easily use it.