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 @(#)mkfifo.2 6.4 (Berkeley) 7/23/91

.Dd July 23, 1991
.Dt MKFIFO 2
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm mkfifo
.Nd make a fifo file
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Fd #include <sys/stat.h>
.Ft int
.Fn mkfifo "const char *path" "mode_t mode"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Fn Mkfifo
creates a new fifo file with name
.Fa path .
The access permissions are
specified by
.Fa mode
and restricted by the
.Xr umask 2
of the calling process.

p
The fifo's owner ID is set to the process's effective user ID.
The fifo's group ID is set to that of the parent directory in
which it is created.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
A 0 return value indicates success. A -1 return value
indicates an error, and an error code is stored in
.Va errno .
.Sh ERRORS
.Fn Mkfifo
will fail and no fifo will be created if:
l -tag -width ENAMETOOLO t Bq Er ENOTSUPP The kernel has not been configured to support fifo's.
t Bq Er ENOTDIR A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
t Bq Er EINVAL The pathname contains a character with the high-order bit set.
t Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters,
or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.
t Bq Er ENOENT A component of the path prefix does not exist.
t Bq Er EACCES Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix.
t Bq Er ELOOP Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
t Bq Er EPERM The
.Fa path
argument contains a byte with the high-order bit set.
t Bq Er EROFS The named file resides on a read-only file system.
t Bq Er EEXIST The named file exists.
t Bq Er ENOSPC The directory in which the entry for the new fifo is being placed
cannot be extended because there is no space left on the file
system containing the directory.
t Bq Er ENOSPC There are no free inodes on the file system on which the
fifo is being created.
t Bq Er EDQUOT The directory in which the entry for the new fifo
is being placed cannot be extended because the
user's quota of disk blocks on the file system
containing the directory has been exhausted.
t Bq Er EDQUOT The user's quota of inodes on the file system on
which the fifo is being created has been exhausted.
t Bq Er EIO An
.Tn I/O
error occurred while making the directory entry or allocating the inode.
t Bq Er EIO An
.Tn I/O
error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system.
t Bq Er EFAULT .Fa Path
points outside the process's allocated address space.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr chmod 2 ,
.Xr stat 2 ,
.Xr umask 2
.Sh STANDARDS
The
.Nm mkfifo
function call conforms to
.St -p1003.1-88 .