管道没有名字，只能用于有一个共同祖先进程的各个进程之间。
FIFO指代先进先出，它是一个单向的数据流，每个FIFO有一个路径名与之相关联，从而允许无亲缘关系的进程访问同一个FIFO。FIFO也被称为有名管道。
#include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/stat.h> int mkfifo(const char *pathname, mode_t mode); //返回：成功为0，出错为-1
创建出一个FIFO之后，它必须或者打开来读，或者打开来写。FIFO是半双工的，不能打开来既读又写。对管道或FIFO的write总是往末尾添加数据，对它们的read总是从开头返回数据。不能对管道或FIFO调用lseek，否则返回ESPIPE。两个进程打开FIFO用于读写有顺序关系：如果当前没有任何进程打开某个FIFO来写，那么打开该FIFO来读的进程将阻塞，如果考虑不当，两进程可能会出现死锁
无亲缘关系的客户/服务器：
//fifo.h #include "unpipc.h" #define FIFO1 "/tmp/fifo.1" #define FIFO2 "/tmp/fifo.2"
//server.c
#include "fifo.h"
void server(int, int);
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
int readfd, writefd;
/* 4create two FIFOs; OK if they already exist */
if ((mkfifo(FIFO1, FILE_MODE) < 0) && (errno != EEXIST))
err_sys("can't create %s", FIFO1);
if ((mkfifo(FIFO2, FILE_MODE) < 0) && (errno != EEXIST)) {
unlink(FIFO1);
err_sys("can't create %s", FIFO2);
}
readfd = Open(FIFO1, O_RDONLY, 0);
writefd = Open(FIFO2, O_WRONLY, 0);
server(readfd, writefd);
exit(0);
}
void server(int readfd, int writefd)
{
int fd;
ssize_t n;
char buff[MAXLINE+1];
/* 4read pathname from IPC channel */
if ( (n = Read(readfd, buff, MAXLINE)) == 0)
err_quit("end-of-file while reading pathname");
buff[n] = '\0'; /* null terminate pathname */
if ( (fd = open(buff, O_RDONLY)) < 0) {
/* 4error: must tell client */
snprintf(buff + n, sizeof(buff) - n, ": can't open, %s\n",
strerror(errno));
n = strlen(buff);
Write(writefd, buff, n);
} else {
/* 4open succeeded: copy file to IPC channel */
while ( (n = Read(fd, buff, MAXLINE)) > 0)
Write(writefd, buff, n);
Close(fd);
}
}
//client.c
#include "fifo.h"
void client(int, int);
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
int readfd, writefd;
writefd = Open(FIFO1, O_WRONLY, 0);
readfd = Open(FIFO2, O_RDONLY, 0);
client(readfd, writefd);
Close(readfd);
Close(writefd);
Unlink(FIFO1);
Unlink(FIFO2);
exit(0);
}
void client(int readfd, int writefd)
{
size_t len;
ssize_t n;
char buff[MAXLINE];
/* 4read pathname */
Fgets(buff, MAXLINE, stdin);
len = strlen(buff); /* fgets() guarantees null byte at end */
if (buff[len-1] == '\n')
len--; /* delete newline from fgets() */
/* 4write pathname to IPC channel */
Write(writefd, buff, len);
/* 4read from IPC, write to standard output */
while ( (n = Read(readfd, buff, MAXLINE)) > 0)
Write(STDOUT_FILENO, buff, n);
}
O_NONBLOCK标志对管道和FIFO的影响：
