named pipe

A named pipe can be accessed much like a file.

There are however circumstances where the communicating processes must use named pipes.

Tricky things, like named pipes, never worked at all.

These named pipes are special files that can exist anywhere in the file system.

These named pipe special files are made with the command as in .

This can be worked around with a named pipe to redirect the input and output.

Applications in a "guest" can use named pipes for communication with their "host".

Without this named pipe one would need to write out the entire uncompressed version of file.

A named pipe can be used to transfer information from one application to another without the use of an intermediate temporary file.

Not applicable for a device or named pipe.

This was another justification for the named pipe handler process.)

When execution is finished, remove the named pipe.

Under the hood, process substitution works by creating a named pipe, and then substituting its name on the command line.

(Because of this, process substitution is sometimes known as "anonymous named pipes.")

Named pipe, an operating system construct intermediate to anonymous pipe and file.

A named pipe is marked with a as the first letter of the mode string, e.g.

It provides application services such as named pipes and MailSlots.

Also unlike their Unix counterparts, named pipes are volatile (removed after the last reference to them is closed).

Simplicity: The commands can be given in-line; there is no need to save temporary files or create named pipes first.

Execute the primary command, replacing the substituted command with the name of the named pipe.

Named pipes cannot be mounted within a normal filesystem, unlike in Unix.

Windows NT named pipes can inherit a security context.

Create a new named pipe.

Windows 95 supports named pipe clients.

Execute the substituted command in the background ( in this case), piping its output to the named pipe.