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CGamesPlay on Jan 27, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Nq – A simple Unix job queue system

Watch out, FIFOs don't have buffers, so that echo will block. Running the echos in the background causes a race condition on execution order.

soheil on Jan 27, 2021 [–]

Named pipes actually do have buffers, you might be thinking about unnamed pipes created by bash.

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