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The use case in the article is piping stdout from one program to stdin of another in the shell, not using pipe(2). To wit: '... the symbol for pipes should ins
by masonic 7y ago
The use case in the article is piping stdout from one program to stdin of another in the shell, not using pipe(2).
To wit: '... the symbol for pipes should instead be “|.” '
- zaat 7y agoAfter digging into it I came with this, which seems worth a submission on its own: https://brandonwamboldt.ca/how-linux-pipes-work-under-the-hood-1518/ https://brandonwamboldt.ca/how-linux-pipes-work-under-the-ho... Basically, the shell is using the pipe system call under the hood.