Linux systems support pipes that enable passing output from one command to another, but they also support 'named pipes,' which are quite different.

Named pipes aren't used all that often, but they provide some interesting options for inter-process communications.

So how fast are Linux pipes? That’s a good question and one that [Mazzo] sets out to answer. The inspiration was a highly-optimized fizzbuzz program that clocked in at over 36GB/s on his laptop.

One of the best things about working at the Linux (or similar OS) command line is the use of pipes. In simple terms, a pipe takes the output of one command and sends it to the input of another comm… ...

Learn a few techniques for avoiding the pipe and making your command-line commands more efficient. Anyone who uses the command line would acknowledge how powerful the pipe is. Because of the pipe, you ...

First of all, I am not sure if I am using the proper terminology.What I would love to accomplish is this: Somebody from the Internet connects to a port on the firewall computer (running mips linux ...

A newly revealed vulnerability in the Linux kernel allows an attacker to overwrite data in arbitrary read-only files. Detailed today by security researcher Max Kellermann and dubbed “Dirty Pipe ...