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Linux 7.2 Improves Anonymous/Unnamed Pipe Performance For Shell Pipelines & More

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 June 2026

Yet another performance optimization merged for the in-development Linux 7.2 kernel is improving the speed of anon_pipe_write, the kernel function used for writing data into anonymous/unnamed pipes such as when using shell pipelines or standard streams from applications...