1 /* Create a named fifo.
2 Copyright (C) 2009, 2010 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 3 of the License, or
7 (at your option) any later version.
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, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
17 /* written by Eric Blake */
27 /* Mingw lacks mkfifo; always fail with ENOSYS. */
30 mkfifo (char const *name _GL_UNUSED, mode_t mode _GL_UNUSED)
36 #else /* HAVE_MKFIFO */
40 /* Create a named fifo FILE, with access permissions in MODE. Work
41 around trailing slash bugs. */
44 rpl_mkfifo (char const *name, mode_t mode)
46 # if MKFIFO_TRAILING_SLASH_BUG
47 size_t len = strlen (name);
48 if (len && name[len - 1] == '/')
51 if (stat (name, &st) == 0)
56 return mkfifo (name, mode);
58 #endif /* HAVE_MKFIFO */