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// @(#)pipe.c 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/8/93
//
#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]);
}
}
