From 0bb0c42bbc23b604ec21f3f9e30363eb17fdc484 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 04:47:52 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] (mkdir): Use pid_t instead of int; check status against zero.
  This is to improve portability.

---
 lib/mkdir.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/mkdir.c b/lib/mkdir.c
index 772c68676..5ca5af696 100644
--- a/lib/mkdir.c
+++ b/lib/mkdir.c
@@ -50,7 +50,8 @@ extern int errno;
 int
 mkdir (const char *dpath, int dmode)
 {
-  int cpid, status;
+  pid_t cpid;
+  int status;
   struct stat statbuf;
 
   if (stat (dpath, &statbuf) == 0)
@@ -84,7 +85,7 @@ mkdir (const char *dpath, int dmode)
       while (wait (&status) != cpid)
 	/* Do nothing.  */ ;
 
-      if (status & 0xFFFF)
+      if (status)
 	{
 	  /* /bin/mkdir failed.  */
 	  errno = EIO;
-- 
2.11.0