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                     20: .Dd July 24, 1990
                     21: .Dt MKFIFO 1
                     22: .Os ATT 7th
                     23: .Sh NAME
                     24: .Nm mkfifo
                     25: .Nd make fifos
                     26: .Sh SYNOPSIS
                     27: .Nm mkfifo
                     28: .Op Fl p
                     29: .Ar fifo_name  ...
                     30: .Sh DESCRIPTION
                     31: .Nm Mkfifo
                     32: creates the fifos requested, in the order specified,
                     33: using mode
                     34: .Li \&0777 .
                     35: .Pp
                     36: Options available are:
                     37: .Tw Ds
                     38: .Tp Fl p
                     39: Create intermediate directories as required.  If this option is not
                     40: specified, the full path prefix of each operand must already exist.
                     41: .Tp
                     42: .Pp
                     43: .Nm Mkfifo
                     44: requires write permission in the parent directory.
                     45: .Pp
                     46: .Nm Mkfifo
                     47: exits 0 if successful, and >0 if an error occurred.
                     48: .Sh STANDARDS
                     49: Mkfifo is POSIX 1003.2 compliant.
                     50: .br
                     51: This manual page derived from the POSIX 1003.2 manual page.
                     52: .Sh SEE ALSO
                     53: .Xr mkdir 1 ,
                     54: .Xr rm 1

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