Named Pipes (FIFOs) on Unix with multiple readers

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The O in FIFO means “out”. Once your data is “out”, it’s gone. 🙂 So naturally if another process comes along and someone else has already issued a read, the data isn’t going to be there twice.

To accomplish what you suggest you should look into Unix domain sockets. Manpage here. You can write a server which can write to client processes, binding to a filesystem path. See also socket(), bind(), listen(), accept(), connect(), all of which you’ll want to use with PF_UNIX, AF_UNIX, and struct sockaddr_un.

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