mkdir and group

From: Jukka Jalava <jukka.jalava_at_vat-vai.valmet.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 18:34:59 +0200

Has anyone run into this:

In HP-UX (System V UNIXes) when you create a subdirectory with mkdir, it
inherits the users effective ID and GID. In DU (at least OSF/1 3.2) it
inherits the GID of the parent directory, and not the user! (I take this
is the way to do it in BSD UNIX)

Using this from command line wouldn't be a major problem, but when it's
built into scripts used by a make-system it gets rather tedious.

Can anyone tell me if there is a way to tell mkdir what UID and GID to
use?

Thank you in advance,

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