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The process writing to the pipe just blocks until another process starts reading from said pipe.
by alt219 7y ago
The process writing to the pipe just blocks until another process starts reading from said pipe.
- brianpgordon 7y agoAh, right, I was misremembering how FIFOs work. You can't even write to it until a reader opens it. I was thinking that you could just dump data on it and the operating system would buffer it until someone came along to read it.