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That's the "mode" argument, or "permission mode" to be a little more verbose.

I agree that the argument should be named "mode", but that's not how it is documented. In 5.8's perlfunc:

    mkdir FILENAME,MASK
    mkdir FILENAME

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Note: in 5.005, it was called mode.

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