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32.\" @(#)mkfifo.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
| 1.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993
2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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32.\" @(#)mkfifo.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
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66will fail and no fifo will be created if:
67.Bl -tag -width Er
68.It Bq Er ENOTSUP
69The kernel has not been configured to support fifo's.
70.It Bq Er ENOTDIR
71A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
72.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
73A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters,
74or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.
75.It Bq Er ENOENT
76A component of the path prefix does not exist.
77.It Bq Er EACCES
78Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix.
79.It Bq Er ELOOP
80Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
81.It Bq Er EROFS
82The named file resides on a read-only file system.
83.It Bq Er EEXIST
84The named file exists.
85.It Bq Er ENOSPC
86The directory in which the entry for the new fifo is being placed
87cannot be extended because there is no space left on the file
88system containing the directory.
89.It Bq Er ENOSPC
90There are no free inodes on the file system on which the
91fifo is being created.
92.It Bq Er EDQUOT
93The directory in which the entry for the new fifo
94is being placed cannot be extended because the
95user's quota of disk blocks on the file system
96containing the directory has been exhausted.
97.It Bq Er EDQUOT
98The user's quota of inodes on the file system on
99which the fifo is being created has been exhausted.
100.It Bq Er EIO
101An
102.Tn I/O
103error occurred while making the directory entry or allocating the inode.
104.It Bq Er EIO
105An
106.Tn I/O
107error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system.
108.It Bq Er EFAULT
109.Fa Path
110points outside the process's allocated address space.
111.El
112.Sh SEE ALSO
113.Xr chmod 2 ,
114.Xr mknod 2 ,
115.Xr stat 2 ,
116.Xr umask 2
117.Sh STANDARDS
118The
119.Fn mkfifo
| 70will fail and no fifo will be created if:
71.Bl -tag -width Er
72.It Bq Er ENOTSUP
73The kernel has not been configured to support fifo's.
74.It Bq Er ENOTDIR
75A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
76.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
77A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters,
78or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.
79.It Bq Er ENOENT
80A component of the path prefix does not exist.
81.It Bq Er EACCES
82Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix.
83.It Bq Er ELOOP
84Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
85.It Bq Er EROFS
86The named file resides on a read-only file system.
87.It Bq Er EEXIST
88The named file exists.
89.It Bq Er ENOSPC
90The directory in which the entry for the new fifo is being placed
91cannot be extended because there is no space left on the file
92system containing the directory.
93.It Bq Er ENOSPC
94There are no free inodes on the file system on which the
95fifo is being created.
96.It Bq Er EDQUOT
97The directory in which the entry for the new fifo
98is being placed cannot be extended because the
99user's quota of disk blocks on the file system
100containing the directory has been exhausted.
101.It Bq Er EDQUOT
102The user's quota of inodes on the file system on
103which the fifo is being created has been exhausted.
104.It Bq Er EIO
105An
106.Tn I/O
107error occurred while making the directory entry or allocating the inode.
108.It Bq Er EIO
109An
110.Tn I/O
111error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system.
112.It Bq Er EFAULT
113.Fa Path
114points outside the process's allocated address space.
115.El
116.Sh SEE ALSO
117.Xr chmod 2 ,
118.Xr mknod 2 ,
119.Xr stat 2 ,
120.Xr umask 2
121.Sh STANDARDS
122The
123.Fn mkfifo
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