Pipes for the UNIX Environment

A pipe is an interprocess communication mechanism that permits two or more processes to exchange information. Platform<ToolKit> for UNIX supports two kinds of pipes: unnamed and named.

This chapter describes how to use both unnamed pipes and named pipes in your programs. The section on unnamed pipes covers these topics.

Creating unnamed pipes
Using streams with unnamed pipes
Using processes with unnamed pipes

The section on named pipes covers these topics.

Using named pipes for client/server processing
Using streams with named pipes

Pipes for the UNIX Environment

Summary of Classes

unnamed_pipe

named_pipe