Named Pipes on Linux don't use FIFO named pipes, rather they use Unix-domain-sockets

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It should be mentioned that on Linux not FIFO named pipes (mkfifo) is used, rather Unix-domain-sockets in order to provide functionality that is on par with the Windows-implemenation.

It may be confusing if one wants to write a IPC solution on Linux with C and C# / .NET playing together, as the C-part has to use UDS.

Reference: dotnet/runtime#24390 and dotnet/corefx#6833

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