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MKFIFO(1) BSD General Commands Manual MKFIFO(1) NAME mkfifo -- make fifos SYNOPSIS mkfifo [-m mode] fifo_name ... DESCRIPTION The mkfifo utility creates the fifos requested, in the order specified. The options are as follows: -m Set the file permission bits of the created fifos to the speci- fied mode, ignoring the umask(2) of the calling process. The mode argument takes any format that can be specified to the chmod(1) command. If a symbolic mode is specified, the op sym- bols "+" (plus) and "-" (hyphen) are interpreted relative to an assumed initial mode of "a=rw" (read and write permissions for all). If the -m option is not specified, fifos are created with mode 0666 modi- fied by the umask(2) of the calling process. The mkfifo utility requires write permission in the parent directory. EXIT STATUS The mkfifo utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. SEE ALSO mkdir(1), rm(1), mkfifo(2), mknod(2), mknod(8) STANDARDS The mkfifo utility is expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2 ("POSIX.2") compli- ant. HISTORY The mkfifo command appeared in 4.4BSD. BSD January 5, 1994 BSD
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