I\'ve got the following piece of code on a PHP 5.2.4 (no safe_mode) linux server:
mkdir( $path, 0777, true );
when I enter a path like:
Ok the solutions is as follows: there was no problem.
I did not test the code in isolation, but only assumed the following code was not doing anything to the directory structure...
as I found out the directory got deleted later on by the code itself.
Anyway, Lesson learned...