user1604294
Reputation:
If multiple programs are reading from a FIFO, what guarantees are available in order-of-receipt?
Say I make a named pipe:
mkfifo foo
cat foo
cat foo
echo "stuff" > "$foo"
is there any guarantee that the first call to cat will receive the data first?
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