Christian Biere wrote:

> In order to prevent unintentionally donating a file or directory when
> mkdir() fails.

can you elaborate on what you mean?

> Well, bug or feature? Isn't that inconsistent if some tools/features only
> consider the UID whereas others use the login?

did you look at the code before you made any of these comments? the
kernel knows about numbers, not about their translation to strings
as dictated by /etc/passwd.

-e.