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More wording changes for description of pipes.

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Michael Kerrisk 2005-12-19 15:16:35 +00:00
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@ -37,10 +37,10 @@ A pipe is created using
which creates a new pipe and returns two file descriptors,
one referring to the read end of the pipe,
the other referring to the write end.
Pipes allow communication between related processes:
one process creates the pipe, and then allows another process to inherit
duplicate file descriptors referring to the pipe as a result of calling
.BR fork (2).
Pipes can be used to create a communication channel between related
processes; see
.BR pipe (2)
for an example.
A FIFO (short for First In First Out) has a name within the file
system (created using