| [ENOTSUP] |
| | The kernel has not been configured to support fifo’s. |
| [ENOTDIR] |
| | A component of the path prefix is not a directory. |
| [ENAMETOOLONG] |
| | A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters, or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters. |
| [ENOENT] |
| | A component of the path prefix does not exist. |
| [EACCES] |
| | Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix. |
| [ELOOP] |
| | Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname. |
| [EROFS] |
| | The named file resides on a read-only file system. |
| [EEXIST] |
| | The named file exists. |
| [ENOSPC] |
| | 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. |
| [ENOSPC] |
| | There are no free inodes on the file system on which the fifo is being created. |
| [EDQUOT] |
| | 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. |
| [EDQUOT] |
| | The user’s quota of inodes on the file system on which the fifo is being created has been exhausted. |
| [EIO] | An I/O error occurred while making the directory entry or allocating the inode. |
| [EIO] | An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system. |
| [EFAULT] |
| | The path argument points outside the process’s allocated address space. |
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