Well, technically it could be considered FIFO in that it is First In First Out. But in UNIX (don't know what they do in the windows world) a FIFO is a named pipe. So instead of only having 0, 1, 2 (stdin, stdout, stderr) you can also open other pipes to other apps. So, a pipe is not a fifo, but a fifo is a pipe, just not a pipe in the <, |, etc sense.
Le Lundi, 23 sept 2002, � 07:34 Canada/Mountain, Richard Jenniss a �crit : > I had, at school today, the privaledge of being told "I'm wrong." > > I was told, by my instructor that a pipe is a _NOT_ a FIFO > > Can someone tell me how it couldn't be? > Is there another perspective of a FIFO that I do not understand? > > Is the windows pipe the same as the Unix pipe? > > Thx. > Richard.
