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Understanding Pipes and Duplication in OS by Sridatta Budaraju is a document available to read on EtoBox.
Pipes and signals allow processes to communicate asynchronously. Pipes allow one-way data transfer between processes using file descriptors. The pipe system call creates a pipe, and processes can read and write to the pipe ends. Related processes like a parent and child can communicate through an inherited pipe. Signals inform processes of events and are used for tasks like terminating programs. The dup and dup2 system calls duplicate file descriptors, allowing processes in a pipeline to redirect their stan
- Author
- Sridatta Budaraju
- Language
- EN