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@(#)mkfifo.1 5.2 (Berkeley) 06/24/90

.AT 3 mkfifo - make fifos mkfifo [ -p ] fifo_name ... Mkfifo creates the fifos named as operands, in the order specified, using mode 0777.

The options are as follows:

-p Create intermediate directories as required. If this option is not specified, the full path prefix of each operand must already exist.

Mkfifo requires write permission in the parent directory.

Mkfifo exits 0 if successful, and >0 if an error occurred.

Mkfifo is POSIX 1003.2 compliant.

This manual page derived from the POSIX 1003.2 manual page.

mkdir(1), rm(1)