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mkFifo

Create FIFO (named pipe) in file system

Declaration

Source position: oldlinux.pp line 1461

function mkFifo(

  pathname: String;

  mode: LongInt

):Boolean;

Description

MkFifo creates named a named pipe in the filesystem, with name PathName and mode Mode.

Errors

LinuxError is used to report errors:

sys_emfile
Too many file descriptors for this process.
sys_enfile
The system file table is full.

See also

POpen

  

Pipe file to standard input/output of program

MkFifo

  

Create FIFO (named pipe) in file system
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