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.