1 .\" Copyright (c) 1986, 1993 2 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3 .\" 4 .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5 .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6 .\" are met: 7 .\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8 .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9 .\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10 .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11 .\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12 .\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 13 .\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 14 .\" without specific prior written permission. 15 .\" 16 .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 17 .\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 18 .\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 19 .\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 20 .\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 21 .\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 22 .\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 23 .\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 24 .\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 25 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 26 .\" SUCH DAMAGE. 27 .\" 28 .\" @(#)pipe.c 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/8/93 29 .\" 30 #include <stdio.h> 31 32 #define DATA "Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art . . ." 33 34 /* 35 * This program creates a pipe, then forks. The child communicates to the 36 * parent over the pipe. Notice that a pipe is a one-way communications 37 * device. I can write to the output socket (sockets[1], the second socket 38 * of the array returned by pipe()) and read from the input socket 39 * (sockets[0]), but not vice versa. 40 */ 41 42 main() 43 { 44 int sockets[2], child; 45 46 /* Create a pipe */ 47 if (pipe(sockets) < 0) { 48 perror("opening stream socket pair"); 49 exit(10); 50 } 51 52 if ((child = fork()) == -1) 53 perror("fork"); 54 else if (child) { 55 char buf[1024]; 56 57 /* This is still the parent. It reads the child's message. */ 58 close(sockets[1]); 59 if (read(sockets[0], buf, 1024) < 0) 60 perror("reading message"); 61 printf("-->%s\en", buf); 62 close(sockets[0]); 63 } else { 64 /* This is the child. It writes a message to its parent. */ 65 close(sockets[0]); 66 if (write(sockets[1], DATA, sizeof(DATA)) < 0) 67 perror("writing message"); 68 close(sockets[1]); 69 } 70 } 71