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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California. |
| 2 | .\" All rights reserved. | |
| 3 | .\" | |
| 4 | .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted | |
| 5 | .\" provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are | |
| 6 | .\" duplicated in all such forms and that any documentation, | |
| 7 | .\" advertising materials, and other materials related to such | |
| 8 | .\" distribution and use acknowledge that the software was developed | |
| 9 | .\" by the University of California, Berkeley. The name of the | |
| 10 | .\" University may not be used to endorse or promote products derived | |
| 11 | .\" from this software without specific prior written permission. | |
| 12 | .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR | |
| 13 | .\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED | |
| 14 | .\" WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. | |
| 15 | .\" | |
| 16 | .\" @(#)mkfifo.1 5.1 (Berkeley) %G% | |
| 17 | .\" | |
| 18 | .TH MKFIFO 1 "" | |
| 19 | .AT 3 | |
| 20 | .SH NAME | |
| 21 | mkfifo \- make fifos | |
| 22 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 23 | \fBmkfifo [ \fI-p\fB ] fifo_name ... | |
| 24 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 25 | .I Mkfifo | |
| 26 | creates the fifos named as operands, in the order specified, | |
| 27 | using mode 0777. | |
| 28 | .PP | |
| 29 | The options are as follows: | |
| 30 | .TP | |
| 31 | .I -p | |
| 32 | Create intermediate directories as required. If this option is not | |
| 33 | specified, the full path prefix of each operand must already exist. | |
| 34 | .PP | |
| 35 | .I Mkfifo | |
| 36 | requires write permission in the parent directory. | |
| 37 | .PP | |
| 38 | .I Mkfifo | |
| 39 | exits 0 if successful, and >0 if an error occurred. | |
| 40 | .SH "HISTORY" | |
| 41 | Mkfifo is POSIX 1003.2 compliant. | |
| 42 | .br | |
| 43 | This manual page derived from the POSIX 1003.2 manual page. | |
| 44 | .SH "SEE ALSO" | |
| 45 | mkdir(1), | |
| 46 | rm(1) |