/* Copyright (C) 1992-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of the GNU C Library. The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see . */ #include #include #include #include /* Create a one-way communication channel (pipe). Actually the channel is two-way on the Hurd. If successful, two file descriptors are stored in FDS; bytes written on FDS[1] can be read from FDS[0]. Returns 0 if successful, -1 if not. */ int __pipe (int fds[2]) { int save_errno = errno; int result; /* The magic S_IFIFO protocol tells the pflocal server to create sockets which report themselves as FIFOs, as POSIX requires for pipes. */ result = __socketpair (PF_LOCAL, SOCK_STREAM, S_IFIFO, fds); if (result == -1 && errno == EPROTONOSUPPORT) { /* We contacted an "old" pflocal server that doesn't support the magic S_IFIFO protocol. FIXME: Remove this junk somewhere in the future. */ __set_errno (save_errno); return __socketpair (PF_LOCAL, SOCK_STREAM, 0, fds); } return result; } libc_hidden_def (__pipe) weak_alias (__pipe, pipe)