differentiate between named & unnamed pipe.

Answer Posted / ramprasad g

named pipe ( is commonly known as FIFO) can be used between
2 totally unrelated processes to communicate.

however pipes cannot be used by process that don't have some
common ancestry (eg parent-child).

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