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==External link==
* [https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/mdmpipe.html Advice from Doug McIlroy] - the path to pipes


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Revision as of 15:47, 29 June 2023

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.

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