Unix\LINUx supports a special form of pipes known as "named pipes". Very simply, a named pipe is an entry on the disk that looks like a file to the programs that write and read it, but it really doesn't contain any data. It helps connecting the output of one program to another without using the pipe character. A named pipe special file is recognizable by the file type character:
p as in prw-rw---- mypipe
1. Determine potential pipe files, On the Unix or Linux console type the following command:
ls -l
2. Look for anything with a "p" in the first column of the permissions metadata. This indicates a pipe type resource as shown in Figure above..
NOTE: It is recommended to Exclude all pipe type targets during Backup process.
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