man/cat1p/mkfifo.1p.txt
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mkfifo(P) mkfifo(P)
NAME mkfifo - make FIFO special files SYNOPSIS mkfifo [-m mode] file... DESCRIPTION The mkfifo utility shall create the FIFO special files specified by the operands, in the order specified. For each file operand, the mkfifo utility shall perform actions equivalent to the mkfifo() function defined in the System Interfaces volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, called with the following arguments: The file operand is used as the path argument. The value of the bitwise-inclusive OR of S_IRUSR, S_IWUSR, S_IRGRP, S_IWGRP, S_IROTH, and S_IWOTH is used as the mode argument. (If the -m option is specified, the value of the mkfifo() mode argument is unspecified, but the FIFO shall at no time have permissions less restrictive than the -m mode option-argument.) OPTIONS The mkfifo utility shall conform to the Base Definitions volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Section 12.2, Utility Syntax Guidelines. The following option shall be supported: -m mode Set the file permission bits of the newly-created FIFO to the specified mode value. The mode option-argument shall be the same as the mode op- erand defined for the chmod utility. In the sym- bolic_mode strings, the op characters '+' and '-' shall be interpreted relative to an assumed ini- tial mode of a= rw. OPERANDS The following operand shall be supported: file A pathname of the FIFO special file to be cre- ated. STDIN Not used. INPUT FILES None. ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES The following environment variables shall affect the execution of mkfifo: LANG Provide a default value for the internationaliza- tion variables that are unset or null. (See the Base Definitions volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Section 8.2, Internationalization Variables for the precedence of internationalization variables used to determine the values of locale categories.) LC_ALL If set to a non-empty string value, override the values of all the other internationalization variables. LC_CTYPE Determine the locale for the interpretation of sequences of bytes of text data as characters (for example, single-byte as opposed to multi- byte characters in arguments). LC_MESSAGES Determine the locale that should be used to affect the format and contents of diagnostic mes- sages written to standard error. NLSPATH Determine the location of message catalogs for the processing of LC_MESSAGES . ASYNCHRONOUS EVENTS Default. STDOUT Not used. STDERR The standard error shall be used only for diagnostic messages. OUTPUT FILES None. EXTENDED DESCRIPTION None. EXIT STATUS The following exit values shall be returned: 0 All the specified FIFO special files were created successfully. >0 An error occurred. CONSEQUENCES OF ERRORS Default. The following sections are informative. APPLICATION USAGE None. EXAMPLES None. RATIONALE This utility was added to permit shell applications to create FIFO special files. The -m option was added to control the file mode, for consistency with the similar functionality provided by the mkdir utility. Early proposals included a -p option similar to the mkdir -p option that created intermediate directories leading up to the FIFO specified by the final component. This was removed because it is not commonly needed and is not common practice with similar utilities. The functionality of mkfifo is described substantially through a reference to the mkfifo() function in the Sys- tem Interfaces volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001. For exam- ple, by default, the mode of the FIFO file is affected by the file mode creation mask in accordance with the specified behavior of the mkfifo() function. In this way, there is less duplication of effort required for describing details of the file creation. FUTURE DIRECTIONS None. SEE ALSO chmod() , umask() , the System Interfaces volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, mkfifo() COPYRIGHT Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2003 Edition, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operat- ing System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Speci- fications Issue 6, Copyright (C) 2001-2003 by the Insti- tute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.open- group.org/unix/online.html . POSIX 2003 mkfifo(P) |