I am reading the C programing guide and all of a sudden it starts talking about pipes. Can someone simply tell me what a pipe is.
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I am reading the C programing guide and all of a sudden it starts talking about pipes. Can someone simply tell me what a pipe is.
They are OS objects appearing as file descriptors in different processes, allowing output of one to be the input of the other. Read here.