// Copyright (c) 1986, 1993 // The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. // // Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without // modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions // are met: // 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright // notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. // 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright // notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the // documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. // 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software // must display the following acknowledgement: // This product includes software developed by the University of // California, Berkeley and its contributors. // 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors // may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software // without specific prior written permission. // // THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND // ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE // IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE // ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE // FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL // DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS // OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) // HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT // LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY // OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF // SUCH DAMAGE. // // @(#)pipe.c 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/8/93 // #include #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]); } } .