.TH MKFIFO 1L \" -*- nroff -*-
.SH NAME
mkfifo \- make FIFOs (named pipes)
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B mkfifo
[\-m mode] [\-\-mode=mode] path...
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page
documents the GNU version of
.BR mkfifo .
.B mkfifo
creates a FIFO with each given name.  By default, the mode of
created FIFOs is 0666 minus the bits set in the umask.
.SS OPTIONS
.TP
.I "\-m, \-\-mode mode"
Set the mode of created FIFOs to
.IR mode ,
which is symbolic as in chmod and uses the default mode as the point of
departure.
.PP
The long-named options can be introduced with `+' as well as `\-\-',
for compatibility with previous releases.  Eventually support for `+'
will be removed, because it is incompatible with the POSIX.2 standard.