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A pipe is an interprocess communication (IPC) mechanism that allows one-way flow of data from one process to another. It is created using the pipe() system call, which returns two file descriptors - one for reading and one for writing. Processes can communicate through a pipe by using these file descriptors to read from and write to the pipe. A FIFO (first-in, first-out) is similar to a pipe but is named and can allow communication between unrelated processes. It is created using mkfifo() and then processes

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