Where should we put the fifos? More generically, is the /programs0 partition still a standard? If I was using Linux on a desktop, I would be using /usr/local/empire, but it seems like /programs0 and /programs1 is the place where everything else was stored.

With EXEC and EXEC_ONCE should we still be using that structure?

Also, are named pipes the best way for us to simply exchange data between processes, or should I be investing the time to learn IPC and message queues?