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diff --git a/sbr/makedir.c b/sbr/makedir.c
index e4c3c26c..9d5e12e5 100644
--- a/sbr/makedir.c
+++ b/sbr/makedir.c
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-
-/*
- * makedir.c -- make a directory
+/* makedir.c -- make a directory
  *
- * $Id$
+ * This code is Copyright (c) 2002, by the authors of nmh.  See the
+ * COPYRIGHT file in the root directory of the nmh distribution for
+ * complete copyright information.
  */
 
 /*
@@ -10,106 +10,67 @@
  */
 
 #include <h/mh.h>
-#include <errno.h>
-#include <sys/param.h>
+#include "makedir.h"
 #include <sys/file.h>
 
-extern int errno;
-	
 int
-makedir (char *dir)
+makedir (const char *dir)
 {
     char            path[PATH_MAX];
     char*           folder_perms_ASCII;
     int             had_an_error = 0;
     mode_t          folder_perms, saved_umask;
-    pid_t           pid;
-    register char*  c;
+    char*  c;
 
-    context_save();	/* save the context file */
+    context_save();     /* save the context file */
     fflush(stdout);
 
     if (!(folder_perms_ASCII = context_find ("folder-protect")))
-	folder_perms_ASCII = foldprot;  /* defaults to "0700" */
-    
-    /* Call strtoul() with radix=0, which means it'll determine the base by
-       looking at the first digit.  That way it'll know "0700" is an octal
-       constant (and if someone gets wacky and changes the representation to hex
-       it'll still work). */
-    folder_perms = strtoul(folder_perms_ASCII, NULL, 0);
+        folder_perms_ASCII = foldprot;  /* defaults to "700" */
+
+    /* Because mh-profile.man documents "Folder-Protect:" as an octal constant,
+       and we don't want to force the user to remember to include a leading
+       zero, we call atooi(folder_perms_ASCII) here rather than
+       strtoul(folder_perms_ASCII, NULL, 0).  Therefore, if anyone ever tries to
+       specify a mode in say, hex, they'll get garbage.  (I guess nmh uses its
+       atooi() function rather than calling strtoul() with a radix of 8 because
+       some ancient platforms are missing that functionality. */
+    folder_perms = atooi(folder_perms_ASCII);
 
     /* Folders have definite desired permissions that are set -- we don't want
        to interact with the umask.  Clear it temporarily. */
     saved_umask = umask(0);
 
-    if (getuid () == geteuid ()) {
-	c = strncpy(path, dir, sizeof(path));     
-	
-	while (!had_an_error && (c = strchr((c + 1), '/')) != NULL) {	
-	    *c = (char)0;
-	    if (access(path, X_OK)) {
-		if (errno != ENOENT){
-		    advise (dir, "unable to create directory");
-		    had_an_error = 1;
-		}
-		/* Create an outer directory. */
-		if (mkdir(path, folder_perms)) {
-		    advise (dir, "unable to create directory");
-		    had_an_error = 1;
-		}
-	    }
-	    *c = '/';
-	}
+    c = strncpy(path, dir, sizeof(path));
 
-	if (!had_an_error) {
-	    /* Create the innermost nested subdirectory of the path we're being
-	       asked to create. */
-	    if (mkdir (dir, folder_perms) == -1) {
-		advise (dir, "unable to create directory");
-		had_an_error = 1;
-	    }
-	}
+    while (!had_an_error && (c = strchr((c + 1), '/')) != NULL) {
+        *c = '\0';
+        if (access(path, X_OK)) {
+            if (errno != ENOENT){
+                advise (dir, "unable to create directory");
+                had_an_error = 1;
+            }
+            /* Create an outer directory. */
+            if (mkdir(path, folder_perms)) {
+                advise (dir, "unable to create directory");
+                had_an_error = 1;
+            }
+        }
+        *c = '/';
     }
-    else {
-	/* Ummm, why do we want to avoid creating directories with the effective
-	   user ID?  None of the nmh tools are installed such that the effective
-	   should be different from the real, and if some parent process made
-	   the two be different, I don't see why it should be our job to enforce
-	   the real UID.  Also, why the heck do we call the mkdir executable
-	   rather than the library function in this case??  If we do want to
-	   call the mkdir executable, we should at least be giving it -p (and
-	   change the single chmod() call below) so it can successfully create
-	   nested directories like the above code can.
-
-	   -- Dan Harkless <dan-nmh@dilvish.speed.net> */
-	switch (pid = vfork()) {
-	    case -1: 
-		advise ("fork", "unable to");
-		return 0;
-		
-	    case 0: 
-		setgid (getgid ());
-		setuid (getuid ());
-		
-		execl ("/bin/mkdir", "mkdir", dir, NULL);
-		execl ("/usr/bin/mkdir", "mkdir", dir, NULL);
-		fprintf (stderr, "unable to exec ");
-		perror ("mkdir");
-		_exit (-1);
-		
-	    default: 
-		if (pidXwait(pid, "mkdir"))
-		    return 0;
-		break;
-	}
 
-	chmod (dir, folder_perms);
+    if (!had_an_error) {
+        /* Create the innermost nested subdirectory of the path we're being
+           asked to create. */
+        if (mkdir (dir, folder_perms) == -1) {
+            advise (dir, "unable to create directory");
+            had_an_error = 1;
+        }
     }
 
     umask(saved_umask);  /* put the user's umask back */
 
     if (had_an_error)
-	return 0;  /* opposite of UNIX error return convention */
-    else
-	return 1;
+        return 0;  /* opposite of UNIX error return convention */
+    return 1;
 }