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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California. |
| 2 | .\" All rights reserved. | |
| 3 | .\" | |
| ef1f0408 | 4 | .\" %sccs.include.redist.man% |
| 10609689 | 5 | .\" |
| ef1f0408 | 6 | .\" @(#)mkfifo.1 5.2 (Berkeley) %G% |
| 10609689 | 7 | .\" |
| ef1f0408 | 8 | .TH MKFIFO 1 "%Q" |
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9 | .AT 3 |
| 10 | .SH NAME | |
| 11 | mkfifo \- make fifos | |
| 12 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 13 | \fBmkfifo [ \fI-p\fB ] fifo_name ... | |
| 14 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 15 | .I Mkfifo | |
| 16 | creates the fifos named as operands, in the order specified, | |
| 17 | using mode 0777. | |
| 18 | .PP | |
| 19 | The options are as follows: | |
| 20 | .TP | |
| 21 | .I -p | |
| 22 | Create intermediate directories as required. If this option is not | |
| 23 | specified, the full path prefix of each operand must already exist. | |
| 24 | .PP | |
| 25 | .I Mkfifo | |
| 26 | requires write permission in the parent directory. | |
| 27 | .PP | |
| 28 | .I Mkfifo | |
| 29 | exits 0 if successful, and >0 if an error occurred. | |
| 30 | .SH "HISTORY" | |
| 31 | Mkfifo is POSIX 1003.2 compliant. | |
| 32 | .br | |
| 33 | This manual page derived from the POSIX 1003.2 manual page. | |
| 34 | .SH "SEE ALSO" | |
| 35 | mkdir(1), | |
| 36 | rm(1) |