From 516c13f08d06fc735cb873bac1b6c15a75b91407 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: pjd <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 23:06:01 +0000
Subject: If the parent directory of the named file has its immutable flag set,
 mkfifo(2) returns EPERM.

---
 lib/libc/sys/mkfifo.2 | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'lib/libc')

diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/mkfifo.2 b/lib/libc/sys/mkfifo.2
index 329c26b..b4fcd91 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/mkfifo.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/mkfifo.2
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 .\"	@(#)mkfifo.2	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd June 4, 1993
+.Dd December 10, 2006
 .Dt MKFIFO 2
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -86,6 +86,10 @@ Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
 The named file resides on a read-only file system.
 .It Bq Er EEXIST
 The named file exists.
+.It Bq Er EPERM
+The parent directory of the named file has its immutable flag set, see the
+.Xr chflags 2
+manual page for more information.
 .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
@@ -116,6 +120,7 @@ argument
 points outside the process's allocated address space.
 .El
 .Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr chflags 2 ,
 .Xr chmod 2 ,
 .Xr mknod 2 ,
 .Xr stat 2 ,
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