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Anonymous pipes, or simply pipes, are kernel-managed objects exposed to processes as a pair of file descriptors, one for the read terminus and one for the write terminus. They are created via the pipe(2) function: int pipefds[2]; int result; result = pipe(pipefds); On success, pipe() record...

File descriptors and FILE objects are per-process resources that cannot themselves be exchanged between processes via ordinary I/O. Therefore, in order for two distinct processes to communicate via an anonymous pipe, one or both participating processes must inherit an open pipe end from the process...

Connecting two child processes via a pipe is performed by connecting each of two children to the parent via different ends of the same pipe. Usually, the parent will not be party to the conversation between the children, so it closes its copies of both pipe ends. int demo() { int pipefds[2]; ...

A shell-style pipeline consists of two or more processes, each one with its standard output connected to the standard input of the next. The output-to-input connections are built on pipes. To establish a pipeline-like set of processes, one creates pipe-connected child processes as described in ano...