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mkdirp-infer-owner
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mkdirp-infer-owner
mkdirp, but chown to the owner of the containing folder if possible and necessary
mkdirp-infer-owner
mkdirp, but chown to the owner of the containing
folder if possible and necessary.
That is, on Windows and when running as non-root, it's exactly the same as
mkdirp.
When running as root on non-Windows systems, it uses
infer-owner to find the owner of the
containing folder, and then chownr to set the
ownership of the created folder to that same uid/gid.
This is used by npm to prevent root-owned files and
folders from showing up in your home directory (either in node_modules or
in the ~/.npm cache) when running as root.
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mkdirp, but chown to the owner of the containing folder if possible and necessary
We found that mkdirp-infer-owner demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 11 Jul 2020
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