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MKFIFO

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: January 2018
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NAME

mkfifo - make FIFOs (named pipes)  

SYNOPSIS

mkfifo [,OPTION/]... ,NAME/...  

DESCRIPTION

Create named pipes (FIFOs) with the given NAMEs.

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

-m, --mode=,MODE/
set file permission bits to MODE, not a=rw - umask
-Z
set the SELinux security context to default type
--context[=,CTX/]
like -Z, or if CTX is specified then set the SELinux or SMACK security context to CTX
--help
display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
 

AUTHOR

Written by David MacKenzie.  

REPORTING BUGS

GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report mkfifo translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>  

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  

SEE ALSO

mkfifo(3)


Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/mkfifo>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) mkfifo invocation'


 

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MKFIFO

Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (3)
Updated: 2017-09-15
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NAME

mkfifo, mkfifoat - make a FIFO special file (a named pipe)  

SYNOPSIS

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>

int mkfifo(const char *pathname, mode_t mode);

#include <fcntl.h>           /* Definition of AT_* constants */
#include <sys/stat.h>

int mkfifoat(int dirfd, const char *pathname, mode_t mode);

Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):

mkfifoat():

Since glibc 2.10:
_POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200809L
Before glibc 2.10:
_ATFILE_SOURCE
 

DESCRIPTION

mkfifo() makes a FIFO special file with name pathname. mode specifies the FIFO's permissions. It is modified by the process's umask in the usual way: the permissions of the created file are (mode & ~umask).

A FIFO special file is similar to a pipe, except that it is created in a different way. Instead of being an anonymous communications channel, a FIFO special file is entered into the filesystem by calling mkfifo().

Once you have created a FIFO special file in this way, any process can open it for reading or writing, in the same way as an ordinary file. However, it has to be open at both ends simultaneously before you can proceed to do any input or output operations on it. Opening a FIFO for reading normally blocks until some other process opens the same FIFO for writing, and vice versa. See fifo(7) for nonblocking handling of FIFO special files.  

mkfifoat()

The mkfifoat() function operates in exactly the same way as mkfifo(), except for the differences described here.

If the pathname given in pathname is relative, then it is interpreted relative to the directory referred to by the file descriptor dirfd (rather than relative to the current working directory of the calling process, as is done by mkfifo() for a relative pathname).

If pathname is relative and dirfd is the special value AT_FDCWD, then pathname is interpreted relative to the current working directory of the calling process (like mkfifo()).

If pathname is absolute, then dirfd is ignored.  

RETURN VALUE

On success mkfifo() and mkfifoat() return 0. In the case of an error, -1 is returned (in which case, errno is set appropriately).  

ERRORS

EACCES
One of the directories in pathname did not allow search (execute) permission.
EDQUOT
The user's quota of disk blocks or inodes on the filesystem has been exhausted.
EEXIST
pathname already exists. This includes the case where pathname is a symbolic link, dangling or not.
ENAMETOOLONG
Either the total length of pathname is greater than PATH_MAX, or an individual filename component has a length greater than NAME_MAX. In the GNU system, there is no imposed limit on overall filename length, but some filesystems may place limits on the length of a component.
ENOENT
A directory component in pathname does not exist or is a dangling symbolic link.
ENOSPC
The directory or filesystem has no room for the new file.
ENOTDIR
A component used as a directory in pathname is not, in fact, a directory.
EROFS
pathname refers to a read-only filesystem.

The following additional errors can occur for mkfifoat():

EBADF
dirfd is not a valid file descriptor.
ENOTDIR
pathname is a relative path and dirfd is a file descriptor referring to a file other than a directory.
 

VERSIONS

mkfifoat() was added to glibc in version 2.4. It is implemented using mknodat(2), available on Linux since kernel 2.6.16.  

ATTRIBUTES

For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
InterfaceAttributeValue
mkfifo(), mkfifoat() Thread safetyMT-Safe
 

CONFORMING TO

mkfifo(): POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008.

mkfifoat(): POSIX.1-2008.  

SEE ALSO

mkfifo(1), close(2), open(2), read(2), stat(2), umask(2), write(2), fifo(7)  

COLOPHON

This page is part of release 4.15 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, information about reporting bugs, and the latest version of this page, can be found at https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.


 

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NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
mkfifoat()
RETURN VALUE
ERRORS
VERSIONS
ATTRIBUTES
CONFORMING TO
SEE ALSO
COLOPHON

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