Is the exchange of data through a named pipe different from the socket connection (in Unix addresses)?
- a full answer is still too lazy to write, but if briefly, then yes - it is different, they are quite different primitives; The key difference is that the server can open one socket and serve several clients on it at once by conducting a bidirectional exchange with each individual, and the pipe only supports unidirectional communication between two processes. - Fat-Zer
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