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- .\" @(#)pipe.c 6.4 (Berkeley) 4/17/91
- .\"
- #include <stdio.h>
-
- #define DATA "Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art . . ."
-
- /*
- * This program creates a pipe, then forks. The child communicates to the
- * parent over the pipe. Notice that a pipe is a one-way communications
- * device. I can write to the output socket (sockets[1], the second socket
- * of the array returned by pipe()) and read from the input socket
- * (sockets[0]), but not vice versa.
- */
-
- main()
- {
- int sockets[2], child;
-
- /* Create a pipe */
- if (pipe(sockets) < 0) {
- perror("opening stream socket pair");
- exit(10);
- }
-
- if ((child = fork()) == -1)
- perror("fork");
- else if (child) {
- char buf[1024];
-
- /* This is still the parent. It reads the child's message. */
- close(sockets[1]);
- if (read(sockets[0], buf, 1024) < 0)
- perror("reading message");
- printf("-->%s\en", buf);
- close(sockets[0]);
- } else {
- /* This is the child. It writes a message to its parent. */
- close(sockets[0]);
- if (write(sockets[1], DATA, sizeof(DATA)) < 0)
- perror("writing message");
- close(sockets[1]);
- }
- }
-