how cool are named pipes in linux? Have you ever used them?

Oct 2, 2026 · 8:18 PM UTC

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Lmao so cool, it’s like the standardized military and aviation communication protocol, one person speaks, then says “over”, once he says that the person on the other end can speak, then he says “over” again to hand in the word
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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?
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FIFOs are awesome until a process blocks on read because nothing is writing to it. Essential tool for bash scripts though.
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Very nice content sir, got my respect, I learn this in the 90s on Unix ever before linux exist, named pipes are indeed awesome.
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Hoare's CSP for the everyman!
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yes in 2011, for IPC web.archive.org/web/20110417… haha.. @sp2hari
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How did you find my industry name out? Nerdpipe is my nickname in the industry..
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Nice! I've been a Linux enjoyer for almost 30 years and just learned about this today!
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Good stuff; I don't think I have ever used one. Linux is chock-full of so many things like this.
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How the duck x knows I watched this on YouTube.
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What keyboard/switches do you use Type? It sounds so nice
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why are the people that make this kind of content trans or a lumberjack with no in between
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Return of the Mack
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