MKFIFO(2) BSD System Calls Manual MKFIFO(2)NAMEmkfifo — make a fifo file
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
int
mkfifo(const char *path, mode_t mode);
DESCRIPTIONMkfifo() creates a new fifo file with name path. The access permissions
are specified by mode and restricted by the umask(2) of the calling
process.
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.
RETURN VALUES
A 0 return value indicates success. A -1 return value indicates an
error, and an error code is stored in errno.
ERRORSMkfifo() will fail and no fifo will be created if:
[EOPNOTSUPP] The kernel has not been configured to support fifo's.
[ENOTDIR] A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
[ENAMETOOLONG] A component of a pathname exceeded {NAME_MAX} charac‐
ters, or an entire path name exceeded {PATH_MAX} char‐
acters.
[ENOENT] A component of the path prefix does not exist.
[EACCES] Search permission is denied for a component of the
path prefix.
[ELOOP] Too many symbolic links were encountered in translat‐
ing the pathname.
[EROFS] The named file resides on a read-only file system.
[EEXIST] The named file exists.
[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 direc‐
tory.
[ENOSPC] There are no free inodes on the file system on which
the fifo is being created.
[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.
[EDQUOT] The user's quota of inodes on the file system on which
the fifo is being created has been exhausted.
[EIO] An I/O error occurred while making the directory entry
or allocating the inode.
[EIO] An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to
the file system.
[EFAULT] Path points outside the process's allocated address
space.
SEE ALSOchmod(2), stat(2), umask(2)STANDARDS
The mkfifo function call conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-1988 (“POSIX.1”).
BSD June 4, 1993 BSD
