Linux systems support pipes that enable passing output from one command to another, but they also support 'named pipes,' which are quite different.

How to set up a named pipe on Linux Before we look at one of these empty named pipes, let’s step back and see how a named pipe is set up. You would use a command called mkfifo. Why the reference ...

Max Kellermann explained that the vulnerability affects Linux Kernel 5.8 and later versions.

One of the best things about working at the Linux (or similar OS) command line is the use of pipes. In simple terms, a pipe takes the output of one command and sends it to the input of another ...

Researchers have shown that the Dirty Pipe vulnerability can be used to modify protected files and gain root rights.

Learn a few techniques for avoiding the pipe and making your command-line commands more efficient. Anyone who uses the command line would acknowledge how powerful the pipe is. Because of the pipe, you ...

So how fast are Linux pipes? That’s a good question and one that [Mazzo] sets out to answer. The inspiration was a highly-optimized fizzbuzz program that clocked in at over 36GB/s on his laptop.

A newly revealed vulnerability in the Linux kernel allows an attacker to overwrite data in arbitrary read-only files. Detailed today by security researcher Max Kellermann and dubbed “Dirty Pipe ...

Linux has been bitten by its most high-severity vulnerability in years Dirty Pipe has the potential to smudge people using Linux and Linux derivitives.