1 /* mkfifo -- make fifo's (named pipes)
2 Copyright (C) 90, 91, 95, 96, 97, 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
5 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
6 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
9 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
12 GNU General Public License for more details.
14 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
15 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
16 Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
19 -m, --mode=mode Set the mode of created fifo's to MODE, which is
20 symbolic as in chmod and uses the umask as a point of
23 David MacKenzie <djm@ai.mit.edu> */
28 #include <sys/types.h>
31 #include "modechange.h"
35 /* The name this program was run with. */
38 /* If nonzero, display usage information and exit. */
41 /* If nonzero, print the version on standard output and exit. */
42 static int show_version
;
44 static struct option
const longopts
[] =
46 {"mode", required_argument
, NULL
, 'm'},
47 {"help", no_argument
, &show_help
, 1},
48 {"version", no_argument
, &show_version
, 1},
57 fprintf (stderr
, _("Try `%s --help' for more information.\n"),
61 printf (_("Usage: %s [OPTION] NAME...\n"), program_name
);
63 Create named pipes (FIFOs) with the given NAMEs.\n\
65 -m, --mode=MODE set permission mode (as in chmod), not 0666 - umask\n\
66 --help display this help and exit\n\
67 --version output version information and exit\n\
69 puts (_("\nReport bugs to <bug-fileutils@gnu.org>."));
77 main (int argc
, char **argv
)
79 unsigned short newmode
;
80 struct mode_change
*change
;
85 program_name
= argv
[0];
86 setlocale (LC_ALL
, "");
87 bindtextdomain (PACKAGE
, LOCALEDIR
);
93 error (4, 0, _("fifo files not supported"));
95 while ((optc
= getopt_long (argc
, argv
, "m:", longopts
, NULL
)) != -1)
102 symbolic_mode
= optarg
;
111 printf ("mkfifo (%s) %s\n", GNU_PACKAGE
, VERSION
);
121 error (0, 0, _("too few arguments"));
125 newmode
= 0666 & ~umask (0);
128 change
= mode_compile (symbolic_mode
, 0);
129 if (change
== MODE_INVALID
)
130 error (1, 0, _("invalid mode"));
131 else if (change
== MODE_MEMORY_EXHAUSTED
)
132 error (1, 0, _("virtual memory exhausted"));
133 newmode
= mode_adjust (newmode
, change
);
136 for (; optind
< argc
; ++optind
)
138 if (mkfifo (argv
[optind
], newmode
))
140 error (0, errno
, _("cannot make fifo `%s'"), argv
[optind
]);