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Pipes, Forks, and Zombies

Hacker News Top · 2026-05-14 Cached

This article from Harvard's CS 61 course covers Unix concepts of pipes, forks, and zombies, explaining how pipes automatically kill programs on closure and how to use pipes to implement blocking waits on child processes.

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