pipe function

pipe creates two file descriptors which can be used by parent and child processes to communicate data. A child process can be created with the fork function.

	Library:   unistd.h

	Prototype: int pipe(int fd[2]);

	Syntax:    int fd[2];
		   pipe(fd);

Once the pipe has been executed, the data can be transfered using read and write.

Notes:

Examples:

read and write variable length records.

See Also:

popen function.

pclose function.

read function.

write function.