Class implements named pipe access and creation.

NamedPipe.java

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.channels.FileChannel;

// From: https://github.com/sioutisc/jdds/blob/master/JDDS/src/rtjdds/rtps/transport/NamedPipe.java

public class NamedPipe extends File {

	private NamedPipe(String name) {
		super(name);
	}
	
	public FileChannel getInputChannel() throws FileNotFoundException  {
		FileInputStream is = new FileInputStream(this);
		return is.getChannel();
	}
	
	public FileChannel getOutputChannel() throws FileNotFoundException  {
		FileOutputStream os = new FileOutputStream(this);
		return os.getChannel();
	}
	
	public static NamedPipe createPipe(String name) throws IOException {
		Runtime.getRuntime().exec("mkfifo "+name);
		NamedPipe pipe = new NamedPipe(name);
		if (pipe.exists())
			return new NamedPipe(name);
		else
			throw new IOException("Errors while creating the pipe");
	}
	
}