Question

Is there any way to create a unix FIFO with Go language? There is no Mkfifo, nor Mknod in os package, though I expected named FIFOs are largely used in posix OS’s. In fact, there is a function for creating an unnamed FIFO (pipe), but no function for creating named pipes.

Am I the only one who needs them?

Answer 1

In order to get it to work on Linux, I simply did a

syscall.Mknod(fullPath, syscall.S_IFIFO|0666, 0)

It seemed to do the trick.

Here is a reference for the underlying mknod() call