Limit on the number on named pipes that can be created on a Linux machine

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And if so, how do we increase it – the named pipes are created using mkfifo command –

Best Answer

Since everything in linux is a file and fifi named pipes are files, i think there's no maximum number of named pipes ...

However it depend if you want to create a huge number of named pipes in the same directory could be a limit that that is a constraint of some File system ...