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How long do FIFOs (named pipes) stay "open" for?
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Mar 15, 20264494 viewsConfidence Score0%
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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 read the pipe a day later with cat /etc/pipe, will I get all the time values right from the time I …
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The process will be able to write bytes (see ) into the pipe. Then it will be stuck, until some of the data will be read. The buffered data will be kept around as long as at least one end of the pipe is open – there is no "timeout" or anything like …
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