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URL: http://cxc.harvard.edu/ciao3.4/mkfifo.tm.html
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AHELP for CIAO 3.4 mkfifo Context: slangrtl

Synopsis

Create a named pipe

Syntax

Int_Type mkfifo (String_Type name, Int_Type mode)

Description

The mkfifo attempts to create a named pipe with the specified name and mode (modified by the process's umask). The function returns 0 upon success, or -1 and sets errno upon failure.

Not all systems support the mkfifo function and even on systems that do implement the mkfifo system call, the underlying file system may not support the concept of a named pipe, e.g, an NFS filesystem.

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