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Tilde.club is giving accounts to waitlist
The process writing to the pipe just blocks until another process starts reading from said pipe.
brianpgordon
on Sept 17, 2019
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Ah, right, I was misremembering how FIFOs work. You can't even write to it until a reader opens it. I was thinking that you could just dump data on it and the operating system would buffer it until someone came along to read it.
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