When making parent directories set permissions based on the base parent tree rather than the new directory to be created.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/coreutils/mkdir.c b/coreutils/mkdir.c
index 6a4ce6e1a..f003db99f 100644
--- a/coreutils/mkdir.c
+++ b/coreutils/mkdir.c
@@ -41,8 +41,10 @@ extern int mkdir_main (int argc, char **argv)
                 switch (opt) {
                 case 'm':
                         mode = 0777;
-                        if (!parse_mode (optarg, &mode))
+                        if (!parse_mode (optarg, &mode)) {
                                 error_msg_and_die ("invalid mode `%s'", optarg);
+                        }
+                        umask(0);
                         break;
                 case 'p':
                         flags |= FILEUTILS_RECUR;