6.3.1 Basic Concepts

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A named pipe works much like a regular pipe, but does have some noticeable differences.

Named pipes exist as a device special file in the file system.
Processes of different ancestry can share data through a named pipe.
When all I/O is done by sharing processes, the named pipe remains in the file system for later use.

Converted on:
Fri Mar 29 14:43:04 EST 1996