`pipe.3p` ( 3 )

создать межпроцессный канал (create an interprocess channel)

Пролог (Prolog)

This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (consult the corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the interface may not be implemented on Linux.

Имя (Name)

pipe — create an interprocess channel

Синопсис (Synopsis)

#include <unistd.h>

int pipe(int fildes[2]);

Описание (Description)

The pipe() function shall create a pipe and place two file descriptors, one each into the arguments fildes[0] and fildes[1], that refer to the open file descriptions for the read and write ends of the pipe. The file descriptors shall be allocated as described in Section 2.14, File Descriptor Allocation. The O_NONBLOCK and FD_CLOEXEC flags shall be clear on both file descriptors. (The fcntl() function can be used to set both these flags.)

Data can be written to the file descriptor fildes[1] and read from the file descriptor fildes[0]. A read on the file descriptor fildes[0] shall access data written to the file descriptor fildes[1] on a first-in-first-out basis. It is unspecified whether fildes[0] is also open for writing and whether fildes[1] is also open for reading.

A process has the pipe open for reading (correspondingly writing) if it has a file descriptor open that refers to the read end, fildes[0] (write end, fildes[1]).

The pipe's user ID shall be set to the effective user ID of the calling process.

The pipe's group ID shall be set to the effective group ID of the calling process.

Upon successful completion, pipe() shall mark for update the last data access, last data modification, and last file status change timestamps of the pipe.

Возвращаемое значение (Return value)

Upon successful completion, 0 shall be returned; otherwise, -1 shall be returned and errno set to indicate the error, no file descriptors shall be allocated and the contents of fildes shall be left unmodified.

Ошибки (Error)

The pipe() function shall fail if:

EMFILE All, or all but one, of the file descriptors available to the process are currently open.

ENFILE The number of simultaneously open files in the system would exceed a system-imposed limit.

The following sections are informative.

Примеры (Examples)

Using a Pipe to Pass Data Between a Parent Process and a Child
       Process
       The following example demonstrates the use of a pipe to transfer
       data between a parent process and a child process. Error handling
       is excluded, but otherwise this code demonstrates good practice
       when using pipes: after the fork() the two processes close the
       unused ends of the pipe before they commence transferring data.

           #include <stdlib.h>
           #include <unistd.h>
           ...

           int fildes[2];
           const int BSIZE = 100;
           char buf[BSIZE];
           ssize_t nbytes;
           int status;

           status = pipe(fildes);
           if (status == -1 ) {
               /* an error occurred */
               ...
           }

           switch (fork()) {
           case -1: /* Handle error */
               break;

           case 0:  /* Child - reads from pipe */
               close(fildes[1]);                       /* Write end is unused */
               nbytes = read(fildes[0], buf, BSIZE);   /* Get data from pipe */
               /* At this point, a further read would see end-of-file ... */
               close(fildes[0]);                       /* Finished with pipe */
               exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);

           default:  /* Parent - writes to pipe */
               close(fildes[0]);                       /* Read end is unused */
               write(fildes[1], "Hello world\n", 12);  /* Write data on pipe */
               close(fildes[1]);                       /* Child will see EOF */
               exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
           }

Использование в приложениях (Application usage)

None.

Обоснование (Rationale)

The wording carefully avoids using the verb ``to open'' in order to avoid any implication of use of open(); see also write().

Будущие направления (Future directions)