Pipes

[Sudpaddy]

Can we Create Pipe between two totally diffrent process ? If yes ,How?

[Dy7SLyTq]

probably, because isnt that what system does? i think it involves something with fork()

[mik2718]

The simplest way is to write two separate programs and just pipe them together on the command line

program_1 | program_2

[Evolve]

If you are interested in inter-process communication in general. It could be worthwhile to look at unix domain-sockets, since they allow bi-directional communication.

[ngopza]

I think you should read Operating systems Design and Implementation book.they explain it well there.Yes, you can.But basically it all depends what do you want to do by piping.

[kbw]

The class features is generically called Interprocess Communication, IPC. There is a variety of actual methods.

This'll get you started.
http://users.actcom.co.il/~choo/lupg/tutorials/multi-process/multi-process.html