Fun with FIFOs (and Minecraft)

Here is a little test you can do to play around with FIFOs (also known as Named Pipes) in bash. For setup, we run mkfifo test which creates a FIFO named test in the current directory. Then run cat - < test This opens test for reading and connects it to stdin , then runs cat - , which copies stdin to stdout . Nothing will happen (for now) because there are no writers for test . In a separate…