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authorjmc <jmc@openbsd.org>2003-04-02 19:00:26 +0000
committerjmc <jmc@openbsd.org>2003-04-02 19:00:26 +0000
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fifo -> FIFO
ok millert@
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diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/mkfifo.2 b/lib/libc/sys/mkfifo.2
index 51092486f28..f29952f9f31 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/mkfifo.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/mkfifo.2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: mkfifo.2,v 1.5 2000/10/18 05:12:10 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: mkfifo.2,v 1.6 2003/04/02 19:00:26 jmc Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: mkfifo.2,v 1.8 1995/02/27 12:34:27 cgd Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm mkfifo
-.Nd make a fifo file
+.Nd make a FIFO file
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Fd #include <sys/types.h>
.Fd #include <sys/stat.h>
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
.Fn mkfifo "const char *path" "mode_t mode"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Fn mkfifo
-creates a new fifo file with name
+creates a new FIFO file with name
.Fa path .
The access permissions are
specified by
@@ -56,8 +56,8 @@ and restricted by the
.Xr umask 2
of the calling process.
.Pp
-The fifo's owner ID is set to the process's effective user ID.
-The fifo's group ID is set to that of the parent directory in
+The FIFO's owner ID is set to the process's effective user ID.
+The FIFO's group ID is set to that of the parent directory in
which it is created.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
A 0 return value indicates success.
@@ -65,10 +65,10 @@ A \-1 return value indicates an error, and an error code is stored in
.Va errno .
.Sh ERRORS
.Fn mkfifo
-will fail and no fifo will be created if:
+will fail and no FIFO will be created if:
.Bl -tag -width Er
.It Bq Er EOPNOTSUPP
-The kernel has not been configured to support fifo's.
+The kernel has not been configured to support FIFOs.
.It Bq Er ENOTDIR
A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
@@ -88,20 +88,20 @@ The named file resides on a read-only file system.
.It Bq Er EEXIST
The named file exists.
.It Bq Er ENOSPC
-The directory in which the entry for the new fifo is being placed
+The directory in which the entry for the new FIFO is being placed
cannot be extended because there is no space left on the file
system containing the directory.
.It Bq Er ENOSPC
There are no free inodes on the file system on which the
-fifo is being created.
+FIFO is being created.
.It Bq Er EDQUOT
-The directory in which the entry for the new fifo
+The directory in which the entry for the new FIFO
is being placed cannot be extended because the
user's quota of disk blocks on the file system
containing the directory has been exhausted.
.It Bq Er EDQUOT
The user's quota of inodes on the file system on
-which the fifo is being created has been exhausted.
+which the FIFO is being created has been exhausted.
.It Bq Er EIO
An
.Tn I/O