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 5.4 (Berkeley) 03/14/91 7.\" 8.Vx 9.Vx 10.Dd 11.Dt MKFIFO 1 12.Os ATT 7th 13.Sh NAME 14.Nm mkfifo 15.Nd make fifos 16.Sh SYNOPSIS 17.Nm mkfifo 18.Op Fl p 19.Ar fifo_name ... 20.Sh DESCRIPTION 21.Nm Mkfifo 22creates the fifos requested, in the order specified, 23using mode 24.Li \&0777 . 25.Pp 26Options available are: 27.Tw Ds 28.Tp Fl p 29Create intermediate directories as required. If this option is not 30specified, the full path prefix of each operand must already exist. 31.Tp 32.Pp 33.Nm Mkfifo 34requires write permission in the parent directory. 35.Pp 36.Nm Mkfifo 37exits 0 if successful, and >0 if an error occurred. 38.Sh STANDARDS 39Mkfifo is POSIX 1003.2 compliant. 40.br 41This manual page derived from the POSIX 1003.2 manual page. 42.Sh SEE ALSO 43.Xr mkdir 1 , 44.Xr rm 1 45