Describe the difference between named pipe files and socket files.?

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Named pipe files are uncommon and used primarily by administrators. ?Named pipes identify a channel that passes information from one process in memory to another, and in some cases they can be mediated by files on the hard drive. Writes to the file are processed while another process reads from it to achieve this passing of information. The socket file is a variant of a named pipe file, which allows a process on another computer to write to a file on the local computer while another process reads from that file.