10 Mar
2020
10 Mar
'20
9:26 p.m.
On Tue, 10 Mar 2020, Chet Ramey wrote:
Yes, absolutely. Just like a pipe is a FIFO, a FIFO is
just a pipe with
a name that appears in the file system.
So they would still be subject to the same 8-block limit? I haven't
delved into the finer points of named pipes as I rarely use them.
Related question: are they the same as Unix-domain sockets? Oddly enough
I haven't used those much either.
-- Dave