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Reputation: 11

What does "mkdir /mnt 0700 shell shell" do in init.rc..?

I am trying to understand android init.rc file. in the file i could see a line "mkdir /mnt 0700 shell shell". What does this line does..? will it create the folders named mnt, 0700, shell..?

when i ran this command in linux PC, its creating three directories name mnt, 0700, shell and giving an error to create one more shell director since its already created a folder named shell. I wanted to know what does this command does in int.rc file.

Thanks in advance..

Regards,

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2987

Answers (1)

OwainD
OwainD

Reputation: 868

The commands in the init.rc file are special language used by the android init process.

The syntax is loosely described in a readme file in the AOSP source code:

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/core/+/master/init/README.md

by in particular the command you are asking about will create a directory called "/mnt" with the unix permissions "0700" owned by the user "shell" and the group "shell".

I hope that helps.

Upvotes: 3

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