Chapter 11: Programming with Pipes

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In This Chapter

• Review of the Pipe Model of IPC

• Differences Between (Anonymous) Pipes and Named Pipes

• Creating Anonymous and Named Pipes

• Communicating Through Pipes

• Command-line Creation and Use of Pipes

Introduction

In this chapter, we ll explore the GNU/Linux pipes. The pipe model is an older but still useful mechanism for inter-process communication. We ll look at what are known as half-duplex pipes and also named pipes. Each offers a FIFO queuing model to permit communication between processes.