Assume 3 messages that are each 8-bytes in size have been sent into a pipe. How many bytes could be received on the next read from the pipe?

24
  • 3
  • 8
  • 1

Pipes are considered a byte-stream form of IPC, rather than a sequence of messages.

There is no link between the number of bytes in one write to a pipe and the next read.

A process can read as many bytes as there are currently in the pipe.