Creating path that its parents not existed

Hi all,

I want to create a directory that parents doesn't exist. For example i want to create "/etc/dir2/mydir" path. "dir2" directory and "mydir" directory doesn't exist.

When i use mkdir(path, 0x01FF) function (that path is "/etc/dir2/mydir"), it can't create "mydir" because "dir2" directory doesn't exist.

How can i solve this problem? I want to create path suddenly same as "mkdir -p /etc/dir2/mydir" command in Linux, i don't want to create path step by step: first dir2 then mydir.

Please guide me.

Can't you just run the system (Linux) command from the c program?

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i don't want to create path step by step:

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Very likely that is what mkdir does...

Simply loop through the directories and for every seperator create the directory. Eg. for your mkdir, make the following directories:

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/etc
/etc/dir2
/etc/dir2/mydir

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The ones that exist will fail, and you can check the error code to see if you're still doing okay.

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Very likely that is what mkdir does...

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mkdir doesn't do that. It only try to create last directory("mydir" in my example in first post"). If parent doesn't exist, it will failed.

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Originally Posted by cnewbie1

Can't you just run the system (Linux) command from the c program?

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That's Ok.