386BSD 0.1 development

Work on file usr/src/usr.bin/mkfifo/mkfifo.1

Co-Authored-By: Lynne Greer Jolitz <ljolitz@cardio.ucsf.edu>
Synthesized-from: 386BSD-0.1

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+.\" Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California.
+.\" All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
+.\" the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
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+.\"     @(#)mkfifo.1   5.6 (Berkeley) 7/1/91
+.\"
+.Dd July 1, 1991
+.Dt MKFIFO 1
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm mkfifo
+.Nd make fifos
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Nm mkfifo
+.Op Fl p
+.Ar fifo_name  ...
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+.Nm Mkfifo
+creates the fifos requested, in the order specified,
+using mode
+.Li \&0777 .
+.Pp
+Options available are:
+.Bl -tag -width Ds
+.It Fl p
+Create intermediate directories as required.  If this option is not
+specified, the full path prefix of each operand must already exist.
+.El
+.Pp
+.Nm Mkfifo
+requires write permission in the parent directory.
+.Pp
+.Nm Mkfifo
+exits 0 if successful, and >0 if an error occurred.
+.Sh STANDARDS
+.Nm Mkfifo is
+.St -p1003.2
+compliant.
+.Pp
+This manual page derived from the
+.St p1003.2
+manual page.
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr mkdir 1 ,
+.Xr rm 1
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Nm
+command is
+.Ud