mkfifo.1 (422B)
1 .TH MKFIFO 1 sbase\-VERSION 2 .SH NAME 3 mkfifo \- make named pipe 4 .SH SYNOPSIS 5 .B mkfifo 6 .RB [ \-m 7 .IR mode ] 8 .I name ... 9 .SH DESCRIPTION 10 .B mkfifo 11 creates named pipes (FIFOs) with the given names. 12 .SH OPTIONS 13 .TP 14 .B \-m 15 Set the file permission bits of newly created FIFOs to mode. The mode 16 is specified in octal as we do not currently support all the formats that 17 the chmod(1) utility supports. 18 .SH SEE ALSO 19 .IR mkfifo (3)