CSCI3150 - IPC-Pipe

Pipe is a communication mechianism for sending information between processes. In this tutorial, you will learn more about pipe in Linux.

You need to do:

• Follow the left content step by step to learn how to use pipe.

• Answer the six questions (Q1-Q6) in Section 1 "Knowing about pipe", the answers can all be found in Section 2 and 3 (A1-A6)

• There are four programs in this tutorial, compile them, run them, understand them. Finish exercise 1 and 2.

After that, you should know:

• What pipe really is.

• How pipe works.

• How to use pipe.

All the sample codes can be found at https://github.com/Grace-TL/csci3150-ipc.

Prepared by TANG Lu