System calls should make you a little nervous. It seems from the context of your post that you chose a system call because Perl's mkdir doesn't do what mkdir -p does on a Unix system. Here's a more-Perlish version that will work on most platforms (not just Unix): 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict; use warnings;
use File::Spec::Functions qw(splitpath catdir rel2abs);

# mkdir -p emulator, call with this.pl /path/to/create

my $path = rel2abs(shift @ARGV);

my $place = '';
foreach my $dir ( splitpath($path) ) {
    $place = catdir($place, $dir);
    (-d $place) || (mkdir $place, 0755) or die "Problem making $place:
+ $!";
}

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