6.3.1 Basic Concepts A named pipe works much like a regular pipe, but does have some noticeable differences. Named pipes exist as a device special file in the file system. Processes of different ancestry can share data through a named pipe. When all I/O is done by sharing processes, the named pipe remains in the file system for later use.

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