CURLOPT_FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS(3) Library Functions Manual
NAME
CURLOPT_FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS - create missing directories for FTP
and SFTP
SYNOPSIS
#include <curl/curl.h>
typedef enum {
CURLFTP_CREATE_DIR_NONE,
CURLFTP_CREATE_DIR,
CURLFTP_CREATE_DIR_RETRY
} curl_ftpcreatedir;
CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS,
long create);
DESCRIPTION
Pass a long telling libcurl to create the dir. If the value is
CURLFTP_CREATE_DIR (1), libcurl may create any remote directory that it
fails to "move" into.
For FTP requests, that means a CWD command fails. CWD being the command
that changes working directory.
For SFTP requests, libcurl may create the remote directory if it cannot
obtain a handle to the target-location. The creation fails if a file of
the same name as the directory to create already exists or lack of
permissions prevents creation.
Setting create to CURLFTP_CREATE_DIR_RETRY (2), tells libcurl to retry
the CWD command again if the subsequent MKD command fails. This is
especially useful if you are doing many simultaneous connections
against the same server and they all have this option enabled, as then
CWD may first fail but then another connection does MKD before this
connection and thus MKD fails but trying CWD works.
DEFAULT
CURLFTP_CREATE_DIR_NONE (0)
PROTOCOLS
This functionality affects ftp only
EXAMPLE
int main(void)
{
CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
CURLcode res;
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL,
"ftp://example.com/non-existing/new.txt");
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS,
(long)CURLFTP_CREATE_DIR_RETRY);
res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
}
}
AVAILABILITY
Added in curl 7.10.7
RETURN VALUE
curl_easy_setopt(3) returns a CURLcode indicating success or error.
CURLE_OK (0) means everything was OK, non-zero means an error occurred,
see libcurl-errors(3).
SEE ALSO
CURLOPT_FTP_FILEMETHOD(3), CURLOPT_FTP_USE_EPSV(3)
libcurl 2025-02-08
CURLOPT_FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS(3)
curl 8.12.0 - Generated Sat Feb 15 07:56:13 CST 2025