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Manual Reference Pages  - PIPE (2)

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pipe - create pipe

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Synopsis
Description
Errors

#include <unistd.h>

int pipe(int filedes[2]);

pipe creates a pair of file descriptors, pointing to a pipe inode, and places them in the array pointed to by filedes. filedes[0] is for reading, filedes[1] is for writing.

On success, zero is returned. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately.

EMFILE	Too many file descriptors are in use by the process.
ENFILE	The system file table is full.
EFAULT	filedes is not valid.

SVr4, SVID, AT&T, POSIX, X/OPEN, BSD 4.3

read(2), write(2), fork(2), socketpair(2)

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