Question: what is the difference between pipe and fifo?
Answer: A FIFO(First In First Out) is similar to a pipe. The principal difference is that a FIFO has a name within the file system and is opened in the same way as a regular file. ... FIFO has a write end and a read end, and data is read from the pipe in the same order as it is written. Fifo is also termed as Named pipes in Linux.