Multiple choice technology operating systems

What is a named pipe?

  1. A Pipe used by kernel to access device

  2. A pipe to be used by the user to access device

  3. An abstraction to provide support for inter process communication

  4. A device
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Explanation

A named pipe (FIFO) is a Unix mechanism for inter-process communication (IPC) that allows unrelated processes to exchange data by reading from and writing to a special file in the filesystem. Unlike anonymous pipes, named pipes have a filesystem entry and can be used by any process that knows the path.

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