Question

Sometimes we are unable to create a directory because ______________

(a) the directory may already exist in the current directory

(b) there may be an ordinary file by the same name in the current directory

(c) the permissions set for the current directory does not allow the creation

(d) the directory may exist, there may be an ordinary file, the permissions set for the current directory does not allow the creation

This question was posed to me in unit test.

I need to ask this question from File Handling Commands: pwd, cd topic in division The File System of Unix

Answer 1

Right answer is (d) the directory may exist, there may be an ordinary file, the permissions set for the current directory does not allow the creation

The best I can explain: Sometimes we are not able to create directory because of multiple reasons as stated above.