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+.\"	@(#)mkfifo.2	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
+.\"
+.Dd June 4, 1993
+.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.
+.Pp
+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:
+.Bl -tag -width ENAMETOOLO
+.It Bq Er ENOTSUPP
+The kernel has not been configured to support fifo's.
+.It Bq Er ENOTDIR
+A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
+.It Bq Er EINVAL
+The pathname contains a character with the high-order bit set.
+.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
+A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters,
+or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.
+.It Bq Er ENOENT
+A component of the path prefix does not exist.
+.It Bq Er EACCES
+Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix.
+.It Bq Er ELOOP
+Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
+.It Bq Er EPERM
+The
+.Fa path
+argument contains a byte with the high-order bit set.
+.It Bq Er EROFS
+The named file resides on a read-only file system.
+.It Bq Er EEXIST
+The named file exists.
+.It 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.
+.It Bq Er ENOSPC
+There are no free inodes on the file system on which the
+fifo is being created.
+.It 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.
+.It Bq Er EDQUOT
+The user's quota of inodes on the file system on
+which the fifo is being created has been exhausted.
+.It Bq Er EIO
+An
+.Tn I/O
+error occurred while making the directory entry or allocating the inode.
+.It Bq Er EIO
+An
+.Tn I/O
+error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system.
+.It 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 .