named pipe

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Definitions of named pipe words

noun Technical meaning of named pipe (operating system) A Unix pipe with a filename created using the "mknod" command. Named pipes allow unrelated processes to communicate with each other whereas the normal (un-named) kind can only be used by processes which are parent and child or siblings (forked from the same parent). 1
noun named pipe (computing) An extension to the anonymous pipe concept on Unix and Unix-like systems, used for interprocess communication. 0

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