diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 9498b5289..98be65394 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -5,12 +5,12 @@ extern crate quickcheck;
 pub mod capabilities;
 pub mod cgroups;
 pub mod command;
-pub mod cond;
 pub mod container;
 pub mod create;
 pub mod logger;
 pub mod namespaces;
 pub mod notify_socket;
+pub mod pipe;
 pub mod process;
 pub mod rootfs;
 pub mod signal;
diff --git a/src/cond.rs b/src/pipe.rs
similarity index 71%
rename from src/cond.rs
rename to src/pipe.rs
index 2ec86cb23..53518eee2 100644
--- a/src/cond.rs
+++ b/src/pipe.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-//! Conditional variable that performs busy waiting on lock
+//! Unix pipe wrapper
 
 use std::os::unix::io::RawFd;
 
@@ -6,16 +6,16 @@ use anyhow::Result;
 use nix::fcntl::OFlag;
 use nix::unistd::{close, pipe2, read};
 
-pub struct Cond {
+pub struct Pipe {
     rfd: RawFd,
     wfd: RawFd,
 }
 
-impl Cond {
-    pub fn new() -> Result<Cond> {
+impl Pipe {
+    pub fn new() -> Result<Self> {
         // Sets as close-on-execution
-        let (rfd, wfd) = pipe2(OFlag::O_CLOEXEC)?; 
-        Ok(Cond { rfd, wfd })
+        let (rfd, wfd) = pipe2(OFlag::O_CLOEXEC)?;
+        Ok(Pipe { rfd, wfd })
     }
 
     pub fn wait(&self) -> Result<()> {
diff --git a/src/process/fork.rs b/src/process/fork.rs
index afa3d8ab5..9689dacff 100644
--- a/src/process/fork.rs
+++ b/src/process/fork.rs
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ use nix::unistd::Pid;
 use crate::cgroups::common::CgroupManager;
 use crate::container::ContainerStatus;
 use crate::process::{child, init, parent, Process};
-use crate::{cond::Cond, container::Container};
+use crate::{container::Container, pipe::Pipe};
 
 /// Function to perform the first fork for in order to run the container process
 pub fn fork_first<P: AsRef<Path>>(
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ pub fn fork_first<P: AsRef<Path>>(
     cmanager: Box<dyn CgroupManager>,
 ) -> Result<Process> {
     // create a new pipe
-    let ccond = Cond::new()?;
+    let cpipe = Pipe::new()?;
 
     // create new parent process structure
     let (mut parent, sender_for_parent) = parent::ParentProcess::new()?;
@@ -55,12 +55,12 @@ pub fn fork_first<P: AsRef<Path>>(
                 sched::unshare(sched::CloneFlags::CLONE_NEWUSER)?;
             }
 
-            ccond.notify()?;
+            cpipe.notify()?;
             Ok(Process::Child(child))
         }
         // in the parent process
         unistd::ForkResult::Parent { child } => {
-            ccond.wait()?;
+            cpipe.wait()?;
 
             // wait for child to fork init process and report back its pid
             let init_pid = parent.wait_for_child_ready()?;