Manual page for MKFIFO(1L)
mkfifo - make FIFOs (named pipes)
SYNOPSIS
mkfifo
[-m mode] [--mode=mode] [--help] [--version] filename...
DESCRIPTION
This manual page
documents the GNU version of
mkfifo.
mkfifo
creates a FIFO with each given name. By default, the mode of
created FIFOs is 0666 minus the bits set in the umask.
OPTIONS
- -m, --mode mode
-
Set the mode of created FIFOs to
mode,
which is symbolic as in chmod and uses the default mode as the point of
departure.
- --help
-
Print a usage message on standard output and exit successfully.
- --version
-
Print version information on standard output then exit successfully.
Created by unroff & hp-tools.
© by Hans-Peter Bischof. All Rights Reserved (1997).
Last modified 21/April/97
