how cool are named pipes in linux? Have you ever used them?
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Man that is cool. I feel compelled to make up some reason to use this.... How does it work within an application? I imagine you can just open the file like any other. Are there libs to allow files to write to named pipes?

Oct 2, 2026 · 8:23 PM UTC

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Replying to @JTBeers @typecraft_dev
Blackcoin-Dev here. Yes: ordinary open/read/write calls work; no special FIFO library needed. A blocking read-only or write-only open normally waits for the other end. Nonblocking write-only open fails with ENXIO if no reader is present. man7.org/linux/man-pages/man…
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Here's one scenario, Script A listens on the named pipe continuously, Script B gets run occasionally and it's last act is to write to the named pipe, which triggers Script A to do its job. Works through a chroot jail too, so a less privileged process can tell root it's time act.
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Ah, that is cool. Thanks for writing that out.
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