1 /* mkfifo -- make fifo's (named pipes)
2 Copyright (C) 1990, 1991, 1995 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
16 Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, 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"
34 /* The name this program was run with. */
37 /* If nonzero, display usage information and exit. */
40 /* If nonzero, print the version on standard output and exit. */
41 static int show_version
;
43 static struct option
const longopts
[] =
45 {"mode", required_argument
, NULL
, 'm'},
46 {"help", no_argument
, &show_help
, 1},
47 {"version", no_argument
, &show_version
, 1},
56 fprintf (stderr
, _("Try `%s --help' for more information.\n"),
60 printf (_("Usage: %s [OPTION] NAME...\n"), program_name
);
62 Create named pipes (FIFOs) with the given NAMEs.\n\
64 -m, --mode=MODE set permission mode (as in chmod), not 0666 - umask\n\
65 --help display this help and exit\n\
66 --version output version information and exit\n"));
73 main (int argc
, char **argv
)
75 unsigned short newmode
;
76 struct mode_change
*change
;
81 program_name
= argv
[0];
82 setlocale (LC_ALL
, "");
83 bindtextdomain (PACKAGE
, LOCALEDIR
);
89 error (4, 0, _("fifo files not supported"));
91 while ((optc
= getopt_long (argc
, argv
, "m:", longopts
, (int *) 0)) != EOF
)
98 symbolic_mode
= optarg
;
107 printf ("mkfifo - %s\n", PACKAGE_VERSION
);
116 error (0, 0, _("too few arguments"));
120 newmode
= 0666 & ~umask (0);
123 change
= mode_compile (symbolic_mode
, 0);
124 if (change
== MODE_INVALID
)
125 error (1, 0, _("invalid mode"));
126 else if (change
== MODE_MEMORY_EXHAUSTED
)
127 error (1, 0, _("virtual memory exhausted"));
128 newmode
= mode_adjust (newmode
, change
);
131 for (; optind
< argc
; ++optind
)
133 if (mkfifo (argv
[optind
], newmode
))
135 error (0, errno
, _("cannot make fifo `%s'"), argv
[optind
]);