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PIPE
Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (2)Updated: 1993-07-23
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NAME
pipe - create pipeSYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h>DESCRIPTION
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.RETURN VALUE
On success, zero is returned. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately.ERRORS
- EMFILE
- Too many file descriptors are in use by the process.
- ENFILE
- The system file table is full.
- EFAULT
- filedes is not valid.
CONFORMING TO
SVr4, SVID, AT&T, POSIX, X/OPEN, BSD 4.3SEE ALSO
read(2), write(2), fork(2), socketpair(2)