meaning of plumber

1. One who works in lead; esp. , one who furnishes, fits, and repairs lead, iron, or glass pipes, and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas, or drainage in buildings.
2. A pillow block.
3. Plumber tool> A system for obtaining information about memory leaks in Ada and C programs. Home http://home. earthlink. net/~owenomalley/plumber. html. 17 Feb 1999 plumbing Unix Term used for shell code, so called because of the prevalence of "pipelines" that feed the output of one program to the input of another. Under Unix, user utilities can often be implemented or at least prototyped by a suitable collection of pipelines and temporary file grinding encapsulated in a shell script. This is much less effort than writing C every time, and the capability is considered one of Unixs major winning features. A few other operating systems such as IBMs VM/CMS support similar facilities. The tee utility is specifically designed for plumbing. [Jargon File]
4. a craftsman who installs and repairs pipes and fixtures and appliances

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