With SAN File System, you can create and use named pipes (or FIFO objects) in the global namespace. A FIFO object is a standard UNIX® feature that is used to communicate and exchange data between processes. It has a directory name and is accessed by a path name. Its file size and a block size are always 0.
When UNIX-based client creates a FIFO object, its file name becomes visible to all other clients, just like any other file. Users and applications on any UNIX-based client can perform standard file-system operations on a FIFO object; however the FIFO implementation is local to the client. In other words, data in a FIFO object is only readable to the same client that wrote the data. Data in FIFO objects is not passed between clients.
Although FIFO objects are visible to Windows® clients (subject to file permissions), Windows-based clients cannot create, read from, or write to FIFO objects.
Parent topic: UNIX-based clients