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Renumber cluase 4 to 3, per what everybody else did when BSD granted them permission to remove clause 3. My insistance on keeping the same numbering for legal reasons is too pedantic, so give up on that point. Submitted by: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@stevens.edu> Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/pull/96
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.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993
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.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
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.\" the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
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.\"
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.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
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.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
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.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
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.\" without specific prior written permission.
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.\"
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.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
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.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
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.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
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.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
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.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
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.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
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.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
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.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
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.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
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.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\"
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.\" @(#)mkfifo.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 1/5/94
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd January 5, 1994
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.Dt MKFIFO 1
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm mkfifo
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.Nd make fifos
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm
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.Op Fl m Ar mode
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.Ar fifo_name ...
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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utility creates the fifos requested, in the order specified.
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.Pp
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The options are as follows:
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.Bl -tag -width indent
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.It Fl m
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Set the file permission bits of the created fifos to the
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specified mode, ignoring the
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.Xr umask 2
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of the calling process.
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The
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.Ar mode
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argument takes any format that can be specified to the
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.Xr chmod 1
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command.
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If a symbolic mode is specified, the op symbols
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.Ql +
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(plus) and
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.Ql -
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(hyphen) are interpreted relative to an assumed initial mode of
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.Dq Li a=rw
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(read and write permissions for all).
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.El
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.Pp
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If the
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.Fl m
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option is not specified, fifos are created with mode
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.Li 0666
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modified by the
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.Xr umask 2
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of the calling process.
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The
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.Nm
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utility requires write permission in the parent directory.
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.Sh EXIT STATUS
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.Ex -std
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr mkdir 1 ,
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.Xr rm 1 ,
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.Xr mkfifo 2 ,
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.Xr mknod 2 ,
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.Xr mknod 8
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.Sh STANDARDS
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The
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.Nm
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utility is expected to be
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.St -p1003.2
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compliant.
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm
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command appeared in
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.Bx 4.4 .
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