<html><head><title>mkfifo</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" >
</head>
<body class='pod'>
<!--
generated by Pod::Simple::HTML v3.01,
using Pod::Simple::PullParser v2.02,
under Perl v5.008002 at Thu Aug 5 13:56:23 2004 GMT.
If you want to change this HTML document, you probably shouldn't do that
by changing it directly. Instead, see about changing the calling options
to Pod::Simple::HTML, and/or subclassing Pod::Simple::HTML,
then reconverting this document from the Pod source.
When in doubt, email the author of Pod::Simple::HTML for advice.
See 'perldoc Pod::Simple::HTML' for more info.
-->
<!-- start doc -->
<a name='___top' class='dummyTopAnchor' ></a>
<h1><a class='u' href='#___top' title='click to go to top of document'
name="NAME"
>NAME</a></h1>
<p>mkfifo - make named pipes</p>
<h1><a class='u' href='#___top' title='click to go to top of document'
name="SYNOPSIS"
>SYNOPSIS</a></h1>
<p>mkfifo "-m mode" filename ...</p>
<h1><a class='u' href='#___top' title='click to go to top of document'
name="DESCRIPTION"
>DESCRIPTION</a></h1>
<blockquote>
<p>Create one or more named pipes,
in the order specified,
with the mode given.</p>
<p>If no mode is given,
create them with mode 0666,
modified by the umask.</p>
</blockquote>
<h1><a class='u' href='#___top' title='click to go to top of document'
name="OPTIONS_AND_ARGUMENTS"
>OPTIONS AND ARGUMENTS</a></h1>
<dl>
<dt><a name="-m"
><i>-m</i></a></dt><p class="pad"></p>
<dd>The mode the fifo should be created with.</dd><p class="pad"></p>
<dd>Numbers must be three octal digits (as for <b>chmod(1)</b>.</dd><p class="pad"></p>
<dd>Symbolic modes,
specified the way you can for <b>chmod(1)</b> (such as <code lang='und' xml:lang='und'>g+w</code>) are also acceptable.</dd><p class="pad"></p>
<dt><a name="filename_..."
><i>filename ...</i></a></dt><p class="pad"></p>
<dd>One or more fifo names to create</dd><p class="pad"></p>
</dl>
<h1><a class='u' href='#___top' title='click to go to top of document'
name="AUTHOR"
>AUTHOR</a></h1>
<p>Jeffrey S.
Haemer and Louis Krupp</p>
<h1><a class='u' href='#___top' title='click to go to top of document'
name="SEE_ALSO"
>SEE ALSO</a></h1>
<pre lang='und' xml:lang='und'> chmod(1) umask(1) mkfifo(2)</pre>
<!-- end doc -->
</body></html>