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[Service Informatique_8]

What does "p" allow?

Thank you for your answer.
Arnaud

[U.SivaKumar_2]

Hi,

That means that file is a unix named pipe.
( special file )
regards,
U.SivaKumar

[Christian Gebhardt]

Hi
this is a named pipe, you can create it with
mknod p

look at "man mknod"

Chris

[U.SivaKumar_2 · Accepted solution]

Definition: A named pipe is used to transfer data between two unrelated processes running on the same machine. The communication is unidirectional. One or more processes write to it while another process reads from it. Named pipes are often called FIFO files, which is short for "First In, First Out

[T G Manikandan]

check this doc

http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000063234216