Introduction of the term named pipe

Question

Give a brief introduction of the term named pipe?

Answer 1

- A traditional pipe is unidentified and can be employed only for the communication of related procedure. When unrelated processes are needed to communicate - named pipes are required.

- It is a pipe whose access point is a file accessible on the file system. If this file is opened for reading, a procedure is granted access to the reading end of the pipe. Likewise, when the file is opened for writing, the process is allowanced access to writing end of the pipe.

- A named pipe is as well referred to as a named or just FIFO.