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/* Creating a Pipe
Copyright (C) 1991-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
/* Read characters from the pipe and echo them to @code{stdout}. */
void
read_from_pipe (int file)
{
FILE *stream;
int c;
stream = fdopen (file, "r");
while ((c = fgetc (stream)) != EOF)
putchar (c);
fclose (stream);
}
/* Write some random text to the pipe. */
void
write_to_pipe (int file)
{
FILE *stream;
stream = fdopen (file, "w");
fprintf (stream, "hello, world!\n");
fprintf (stream, "goodbye, world!\n");
fclose (stream);
}
int
main (void)
{
pid_t pid;
int mypipe[2];
/*@group*/
/* Create the pipe. */
if (pipe (mypipe))
{
fprintf (stderr, "Pipe failed.\n");
return EXIT_FAILURE;
}
/*@end group*/
/* Create the child process. */
pid = fork ();
if (pid == (pid_t) 0)
{
/* This is the child process.
Close other end first. */
close (mypipe[1]);
read_from_pipe (mypipe[0]);
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}
else if (pid < (pid_t) 0)
{
/* The fork failed. */
fprintf (stderr, "Fork failed.\n");
return EXIT_FAILURE;
}
else
{
/* This is the parent process.
Close other end first. */
close (mypipe[0]);
write_to_pipe (mypipe[1]);
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}
}
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