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+.\" Copyright Andries Brouwer, Ragnar Hojland Espinosa and A. Wik, 1998.
+.\"
+.\" This file may be copied under the conditions described
+.\" in the LDP GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, Version 1, September 1998
+.\" that should have been distributed together with this file.
+.\"
+.TH MKFIFO 1 1998-11 "GNU fileutils 4.0"
+.SH NAME
+mkfifo \- make FIFOs (named pipes)
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.BI "mkfifo [" options "] " file...
+.sp
+POSIX options:
+.BI "[\-m " mode "] [\-\-]"
+.sp
+GNU options (shortest form):
+.BI "[\-m " mode "] [\-\-help] [\-\-version] [\-\-]"
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B mkfifo
+creates FIFOs (also called "named pipes") with the
+specified filenames.
+.PP
+A "FIFO" is a special file type that permits independent processes
+to communicate.  One process opens the FIFO file for writing, and
+another for reading, after which data can flow as with the usual
+anonymous pipe in shells or elsewhere.
+.PP
+By default, the mode of created FIFOs is 0666 (`a+rw') minus the bits set
+in the umask.
+.SH OPTIONS
+.TP
+.BI "\-m " mode ", \-\-mode=" mode
+Set the mode of created FIFOs to
+.IR mode ,
+which can be symbolic as in
+.BR chmod (1)
+and uses the default mode as the point of departure.
+.TP
+.B "\-\-"
+Terminate option list.
+.SH "GNU STANDARD OPTIONS"
+.TP
+.B "\-\-help"
+Print a usage message on standard output and exit successfully.
+.TP
+.B "\-\-version"
+Print version information on standard output, then exit successfully.
+.TP
+.B "\-\-"
+Terminate option list.
+.SH ENVIRONMENT
+The variables LANG, LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE and LC_MESSAGES have the
+usual meaning.
+.SH "CONFORMING TO"
+POSIX 1003.2
+.SH NOTES
+This page describes
+.B mkfifo
+as found in the fileutils-4.0 package;
+other versions may differ slightly.