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How many ways does Unix feign files?
I know Unix filesystem sometimes has things that appear to be files but are not actually files. The files in dev actually point to devices. Its also possible to created named pipes which also appear ...
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How long do FIFOs (named pipes) stay "open" for?
For example, I have a script that writes the time to a pipe in /etc/pipe. It writes continuously in a while true loop. How long will the data in the pipe be available for reading? If I only decide to ...
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