fifo file

In Unix systems, a FIFO file is a named pipe that uses the file system as a way to store the pipe name. These inspectors provide access to these named pipes.

Parent: filesystem object
Version Platforms
8.0.584.0 AIX, HP-UX, Red Hat, SUSE, Solaris
8.1.535.0 Debian, Ubuntu
9.5.13.130 Raspbian

Creation

fifo file <filesystem object> : fifo file
fifo file <string> : fifo file
fifo file <string> of <folder> : fifo file
fifo file of <folder> : fifo file
<filesystem object> as fifo file : fifo file

Properties

drive of <fifo file> : filesystem
filesystem of <fifo file> : filesystem