Thanks sshfs magic, I can mount my home dir from a remote server with
I heard that FIFOs are named pipes. And they have exactly the same semantics. On the other hand, I think Unix domain socket is quite similar to pipe (although I’ve never made use of it). So I wonder if they all refer to the same implementation in Linux kernel. Any idea?
Asks the kernel for an anonymous pipe. There is no name, so this can’t be done with open like for a normal file — instead it’s done with pipe or pipe2, which returns two file descriptors.⁴