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Latest revision as of 21:38, 30 June 2025
A pipe is a reliable byte stream between processes in the UNIX operating system. They are not a general inter-process communication mechanism; a pipe between two processes must have been set up by a common ancestor of the two, before any child processes which are to use it are created.
External link
- Advice from Doug McIlroy - the path to pipes