1.\" Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California. 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" %sccs.include.redist.man% 5.\" 6.\" @(#)mkfifo.1 5.3 (Berkeley) 07/24/90 7.\" 8.Dd 9.Dt MKFIFO 1 10.Os ATT 7th 11.Sh NAME 12.Nm mkfifo 13.Nd make fifos 14.Sh SYNOPSIS 15.Nm mkfifo 16.Op Fl p 17.Ar fifo_name ... 18.Sh DESCRIPTION 19.Nm Mkfifo 20creates the fifos requested, in the order specified, 21using mode 22.Li \&0777 . 23.Pp 24Options available are: 25.Tw Ds 26.Tp Fl p 27Create intermediate directories as required. If this option is not 28specified, the full path prefix of each operand must already exist. 29.Tp 30.Pp 31.Nm Mkfifo 32requires write permission in the parent directory. 33.Pp 34.Nm Mkfifo 35exits 0 if successful, and >0 if an error occurred. 36.Sh STANDARDS 37Mkfifo is POSIX 1003.2 compliant. 38.br 39This manual page derived from the POSIX 1003.2 manual page. 40.Sh SEE ALSO 41.Xr mkdir 1 , 42.Xr rm 1 43