How Pipes, Named Pipes, and Message Queues Revolutionized Process Communication

From early 1970s Bell Labs' breakthrough of process isolation to the invention of in‑memory pipes, named pipes, and structured message queues, this article traces the evolution of inter‑process communication, highlighting design motivations, code structures, advantages, limitations, and the performance challenges that drove each innovation.

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How Pipes, Named Pipes, and Message Queues Revolutionized Process Communication

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Dec 17, 2020 · Fundamentals

How Linux Pipes, FIFOs, and Signals Enable Interprocess Communication

This article explains the fundamentals of Linux pipes and named pipes (FIFOs), their kernel implementation, read/write APIs with code examples, and an overview of signal mechanisms, types, and handling in the context of inter‑process communication.

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How Linux Pipes, FIFOs, and Signals Enable Interprocess Communication

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Mar 23, 2017 · Fundamentals

Master Linux Pipes and FIFOs: Build a Simple C Chat Application

This article explains the concepts of anonymous and named pipes in Linux, compares their characteristics, shows how to create them with mknod and mkfifo, and provides a complete C example that implements a two‑process chat program using threads and pipe I/O.

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Master Linux Pipes and FIFOs: Build a Simple C Chat Application