#47579 [Com]: Deleting a directory created recursively with mkdir

ID: 47579 Comment by: yorianbenjamin at hotmail dot com Reported By: yorianbenjamin at hotmail dot com Status: Feedback Bug Type: Directory function related Operating System: Linux PHP Version: 5.2.9 New Comment: All the directories (test_dir2, test_dir3 and blaat) had 0755 as mode (because of a mask). But that's the strange thing, the directories had pretty much everything identical. When I used stat() on all the directories they were pretty much identical. The only differences were: - different inode (which is what you'd expect) - nlink gives 2 for the one directory and 3 for the other Since I thought it might be the server I am working I asked someone else. But he had exactly the same problem... Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-03-06 10:44:02] jani@php.net Propably just a misconfigured system, but what exacty were the permissions (for ALL directories created) ? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-03-05 20:23:45] yorianbenjamin at hotmail dot com Description: ------------ When using mkdir() to create a directory recursively it creates directories which can not be removed with ftp. However when I create a single directory with mkdir it is removable. Reproduce code: --------------- <?php mkdir('test_dir2', 0777, FALSE); mkdir('test_dir3', 0777, TRUE); mkdir('test_dir4/blaat', 0777, TRUE); ?> Expected result: ---------------- I expected that I could easily delete all the directories using ftp. Actual result: -------------- Deleting the directories (using ftp): test_dir2 and test_dir3 worked as I expected it. Trying to delete blaat or test_dir4 returned an error: [23:25:38] 550 blaat: Permission denied (or in the case of the other directory: test_dir4: permission denied) Someone else who tested it on his system replied: This did the same thing on my machine. I had to be a superuser in order to delete it at the command line (which is essentially what you would need to do over FTP). I have no idea why that would happen. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=47579&edit=1