How does an ipc-file work?

[serapath]

Is there an example or some reading material?
That sounds very interesting in general. Never heard about such a thing.

Would love if I could get or read some explanation or see some examples :-)
Are there standards for this?

[andrewrk]

It's just a socket as a file. Works the same as a network connection.

[andrewrk]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_domain_socket

[serapath]

Oh, I didn't know about "socket as a file". Are there some cool resources that show how that works?
Can multiple files pipe to the file which is .. i guess read? ... by the receiving process?
Can I pipe from another node process to the file and from the terminal too?
Is it slower or different than piping directly - for example - from a parent to a child process?

Do you maybe have some code examples? :-)