NVIDIA Interview Question for Development Support Engineers






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unnamed pipes are created used and destroyed by a set of processe.
they have two ends one for writing and one for reading.
they can link only two related processes. when its use is over they are automatically reclaimed.

named pipes or FIFO has a name and it remains in saytem till it is removed explicitly. it can link two totally separate process as it outlives a process

- Anonymous July 26, 2010 | Flag Reply
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unnamed pipes are unidirectional while named pipes are bidirectional
unnamed pipes are created by shell implicitly while named pipe are created using commands

- viz December 11, 2010 | Flag Reply
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1) unnamed has the name and remain even after the processes end.
2) unnamed pipes are possible between 2 different processes(no child parent process)

Please comment!!!

- Anonymous May 05, 2010 | Flag Reply
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Unnamed pipes are pipes which can be used between related processes like parent,child and their siblings.

Named pipes are FIFOs and they are have name like normal files.So any process can use FIFOs

- Anonymous May 05, 2010 | Flag


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