MKFIFO
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: December 2009
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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, --context=CTX
-
set the SELinux security context of each NAME to CTX
- --help
-
display this help and exit
- --version
-
output version information and exit
AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
Report mkfifo bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2009 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)
The full documentation for
mkfifo
is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
info
and
mkfifo
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
-
info coreutils aqmkfifo invocationaq
should give you access to the complete manual.