_mkdir, _wmkdir

Creates a new directory.

int _mkdir(
   const char *dirname 
);
int _wmkdir(
   const wchar_t *dirname 
);

Parameters

• dirname
  Path for a new directory.

Return Value

Each of these functions returns the value 0 if the new directory was created. On an error, the function returns –1 and sets errno as follows.

• EEXIST
  Directory was not created because dirname is the name of an existing file, directory, or device.

• ENOENT
  Path was not found.

For more information about these and other return codes, see _doserrno, errno, _sys_errlist, and _sys_nerr.

Remarks

The _mkdir function creates a new directory with the specified dirname. _mkdir can create only one new directory per call, so only the last component of dirname can name a new directory. _mkdir does not translate path delimiters. In Windows NT, both the backslash ( \) and the forward slash (/ ) are valid path delimiters in character strings in run-time routines.

_wmkdir is a wide-character version of _mkdir; the dirname argument to _wmkdir is a wide-character string. _wmkdir and _mkdir behave identically otherwise.

Generic-Text Routine Mappings

Requirements

For more compatibility information, see Compatibility in the Introduction.

Libraries

All versions of the C run-time libraries.

Example

// crt_makedir.c

#include <direct.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main( void )
{
   if( _mkdir( "\\testtmp" ) == 0 )
   {
      printf( "Directory '\\testtmp' was successfully created\n" );
      system( "dir \\testtmp" );
      if( _rmdir( "\\testtmp" ) == 0 )
        printf( "Directory '\\testtmp' was successfully removed\n"  );
      else
         printf( "Problem removing directory '\\testtmp'\n" );
   }
   else
      printf( "Problem creating directory '\\testtmp'\n" );
}

Sample Output

Directory '\testtmp' was successfully created
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is E078-087A

 Directory of C:\testtmp

02/12/2002  09:56a      <DIR>          .
02/12/2002  09:56a      <DIR>          ..
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  15,498,690,560 bytes free
Directory '\testtmp' was successfully removed

.NET Framework Equivalent

• System::IO::Directory::CreateDirectory

• System::IO::DirectoryInfo::CreateSubdirectory

See Also

Reference

Directory Control

_chdir, _wchdir

_rmdir, _wrmdir