1 /* mkfifo -- make fifo's (named pipes)
2 Copyright (C) 90, 91, 1995-2000 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. */
18 /* David MacKenzie <djm@ai.mit.edu> */
23 #include <sys/types.h>
27 #include "modechange.h"
30 /* The official name of this program (e.g., no `g' prefix). */
31 #define PROGRAM_NAME "mkfifo"
33 #define AUTHORS "David MacKenzie"
35 /* The name this program was run with. */
38 static struct option
const longopts
[] =
40 {"mode", required_argument
, NULL
, 'm'},
41 {GETOPT_HELP_OPTION_DECL
},
42 {GETOPT_VERSION_OPTION_DECL
},
51 fprintf (stderr
, _("Try `%s --help' for more information.\n"),
55 printf (_("Usage: %s [OPTION] NAME...\n"), program_name
);
57 Create named pipes (FIFOs) with the given NAMEs.\n\
59 -m, --mode=MODE set permission mode (as in chmod), not a=rw - umask\n\
60 --help display this help and exit\n\
61 --version output version information and exit\n\
63 puts (_("\nReport bugs to <bug-fileutils@gnu.org>."));
70 main (int argc
, char **argv
)
73 struct mode_change
*change
;
74 const char *specified_mode
;
78 program_name
= argv
[0];
79 setlocale (LC_ALL
, "");
80 bindtextdomain (PACKAGE
, LOCALEDIR
);
83 atexit (close_stdout
);
85 specified_mode
= NULL
;
88 error (4, 0, _("fifo files not supported"));
90 while ((optc
= getopt_long (argc
, argv
, "m:", longopts
, NULL
)) != -1)
97 specified_mode
= optarg
;
99 case_GETOPT_HELP_CHAR
;
100 case_GETOPT_VERSION_CHAR (PROGRAM_NAME
, AUTHORS
);
108 error (0, 0, _("too few arguments"));
112 newmode
= (S_IRUSR
| S_IWUSR
| S_IRGRP
| S_IWGRP
| S_IROTH
| S_IWOTH
);
115 newmode
&= ~ umask (0);
116 change
= mode_compile (specified_mode
, 0);
117 if (change
== MODE_INVALID
)
118 error (1, 0, _("invalid mode"));
119 else if (change
== MODE_MEMORY_EXHAUSTED
)
121 newmode
= mode_adjust (newmode
, change
);
124 for (; optind
< argc
; ++optind
)
126 int fail
= mkfifo (argv
[optind
], newmode
);
128 error (0, errno
, _("cannot create fifo `%s'"), quote (argv
[optind
]));
130 /* If the containing directory happens to have a default ACL, chmod
131 ensures the file mode permission bits are still set as desired. */
133 if (fail
== 0 && specified_mode
)
135 fail
= chmod (argv
[optind
], newmode
);
137 error (0, errno
, _("cannot set permissions of fifo `%s'"),
138 quote (argv
[optind
]));