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20.16 Named pipes ¶

Named pipes allow two processes to communicate; See mkfifo Make FIFOs (named pipes). Before considering named pipes, we should see if the Bash built–in coproc can solve our problem, See Coprocesses.

Function: mbfl_exec_mkfifo ARG … ¶

Execute the program mkfifo using the given optional command line arguments.

There are multiple ways to use named pipes as interprocess communication method.

• file fifo example one:		Each process opens the FIFO pathnames.
• file fifo example two:		Redirection of standard channels to FIFO pathnames.