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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Info regarding mknod -p Post 302582603 by Bibhudatta on Friday 16th of December 2011 12:54:30 PM
Old 12-16-2011
Data Info regarding mknod -p

Hello All,

Friends i know mknod with -p option is used to create FIFO special file.Smilie

But i want to know some circumstance/scenario where these are used.Smilie

Actually i want to know where i can use it in real time.

Please advise.Smilie

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MKNOD(1)							   User Commands							  MKNOD(1)

NAME
mknod - make block or character special files SYNOPSIS
mknod [OPTION]... NAME TYPE [MAJOR MINOR] DESCRIPTION
Create the special file NAME of the given TYPE. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -m, --mode=MODE set file permission bits to MODE, not a=rw - umask -Z, --context=CTX set the SELinux security context of NAME to CTX --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit Both MAJOR and MINOR must be specified when TYPE is b, c, or u, and they must be omitted when TYPE is p. If MAJOR or MINOR begins with 0x or 0X, it is interpreted as hexadecimal; otherwise, if it begins with 0, as octal; otherwise, as decimal. TYPE may be: b create a block (buffered) special file c, u create a character (unbuffered) special file p create a FIFO NOTE: your shell may have its own version of mknod, which usually supersedes the version described here. Please refer to your shell's doc- umentation for details about the options it supports. AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie. REPORTING BUGS
Report mknod bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/> Report mknod translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO
mknod(2) The full documentation for mknod is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and mknod programs are properly installed at your site, the command info coreutils 'mknod invocation' should give you access to the complete manual. GNU coreutils 8.12.197-032bb September 2011 MKNOD(1)
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