1 /* mkfifo -- make fifo's (named pipes)
2 Copyright (C) 90, 91, 1995-1999 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>
32 #include "modechange.h"
34 /* The official name of this program (e.g., no `g' prefix). */
35 #define PROGRAM_NAME "mkfifo"
37 #define AUTHORS "David MacKenzie"
39 /* The name this program was run with. */
42 static struct option
const longopts
[] =
44 {"mode", required_argument
, NULL
, 'm'},
45 {GETOPT_HELP_OPTION_DECL
},
46 {GETOPT_VERSION_OPTION_DECL
},
55 fprintf (stderr
, _("Try `%s --help' for more information.\n"),
59 printf (_("Usage: %s [OPTION] NAME...\n"), program_name
);
61 Create named pipes (FIFOs) with the given NAMEs.\n\
63 -m, --mode=MODE set permission mode (as in chmod), not a=rw - umask\n\
64 --help display this help and exit\n\
65 --version output version information and exit\n\
67 puts (_("\nReport bugs to <bug-fileutils@gnu.org>."));
75 main (int argc
, char **argv
)
78 struct mode_change
*change
;
79 const char *symbolic_mode
;
83 program_name
= argv
[0];
84 setlocale (LC_ALL
, "");
85 bindtextdomain (PACKAGE
, LOCALEDIR
);
91 error (4, 0, _("fifo files not supported"));
93 while ((optc
= getopt_long (argc
, argv
, "m:", longopts
, NULL
)) != -1)
100 symbolic_mode
= optarg
;
102 case_GETOPT_HELP_CHAR
;
103 case_GETOPT_VERSION_CHAR (PROGRAM_NAME
, AUTHORS
);
111 error (0, 0, _("too few arguments"));
115 newmode
= ((S_IRUSR
| S_IWUSR
| S_IRGRP
| S_IWGRP
| S_IROTH
| S_IWOTH
)
119 change
= mode_compile (symbolic_mode
, 0);
120 if (change
== MODE_INVALID
)
121 error (1, 0, _("invalid mode"));
122 else if (change
== MODE_MEMORY_EXHAUSTED
)
123 error (1, 0, _("virtual memory exhausted"));
124 newmode
= mode_adjust (newmode
, change
);
127 for (; optind
< argc
; ++optind
)
129 if (mkfifo (argv
[optind
], newmode
))
131 error (0, errno
, _("cannot make fifo `%s'"), argv
[optind
]);