IPC: using named pipes in C ++ between two programs

Question

I am trying to implement IPC between two different programs running on the same computer (in my case, it is CentOS7). To have a simple connection, I decided to use a named pipe for IPC. So I played with the following example and ran into various problems.

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#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/select.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

using namespace std;

main()  {
 int fd;
 char * myfifo = new char [12];
 strcpy(myfifo, "./tmp/myfifo1");

 /* create the FIFO (named pipe) */
 mkfifo(myfifo, 0666);
 /* write "Hi" to the FIFO */
 fd = open("./tmp/myfifo1", O_WRONLY ); //open(myfifo, O_WRONLY | O_NONBLOCK);
 if (fd == -1) {
     perror("open");
     return EXIT_FAILURE;
 } 
 printf("File open\n");
 write(fd, "entry [1]", sizeof("entry [1]"));
 sleep(1);
 write(fd, "entry [2]", sizeof("entry [2]"));
 sleep(2);
 write(fd, "entry [3]", sizeof("entry [3]"));
 printf("Content written\n");
 close(fd);
 printf("Connection closed\n");
 /* remove the FIFO */
 unlink(myfifo);
 return 0;
}

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#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/select.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <string>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

main()  {
 int fd; 
 fd_set set_a;

 char * myfifo = new char [12];
 strcpy(myfifo, "./tmp/myfifo1");
 char buffer[1024];

 fd = open("./tmp/myfifo1", O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK);
 if (fd == -1) {
     perror("open");
     return EXIT_FAILURE;
 } 
 ssize_t bytes;
 size_t total_bytes = 0;
 printf("\nDropped into read pipe\n");
 while(1){
     if((bytes = read(fd, buffer, sizeof(buffer))) > 0){
         std::string message(&buffer[22]);
         total_bytes += (size_t)bytes;
         printf("%i", bytes);

         printf("Message: %s\n", message.c_str());
         memset(&buffer[0], 0, sizeof(buffer));
     }else{
         if (errno == EWOULDBLOCK) {
             printf("\ndone reading (%d bytes)\n", (int)total_bytes);
             //break;
         }
         printf("No message\n");
         sleep(2);
     } 
 }
 return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

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