Pipe() tutorial for linux

hey what's up guys my name is Paul I'm doing the narration that guy up there his name's Brandon he's going to be doing the illustrations and we got Mario chillin with us since we're doing pipes alright before we get started go ahead and make sure you've seen the forks is called tutorial and the do to this call tutorial alright so let's do this so let's start with the basics of piping a pipe is basically a buffer or a block of data with two file descriptors one for reading and one for writing a pipe is a form of redirection that is used to send the output of one program to another program the first programs output is sent to the right end of the pipe and the second program takes input from the read end of the pipe now the pipe system call takes in an array of at least size two and uses this array to return to file descriptors that refer to the two ends of the pipe let's first declare an int array of size two we'll call this array FDS now we call pipe passing in our array FDS so somewhere in memory we have our standard file descriptors 0 1 and 2 and somewhere along the line we now have two file descriptors that refer to our pipe held by FDS FDS at one is the right end of our pipe and FDS 0 is the read end of our pipe so at this point we now have a pipe that we can write to and read from blood of what values is to us let's say we have a program or we need to have two processes that can communicate with one of them hopefully you've seen the fork video before this if not go watch it I'll wait I'm just kidding I'm not going to wait for you alright in our program we call fork so now the child and the parent have their copies of the file descriptors for our pipe so now on the child let's say we need to execute a command and give that information to the parent since we have our pipe in the child we can execute that command and through the use of doop write it into the right end of the pipe instead of standard out so now that we have written into the pipe in the parent process we can actually retrieve the information from the child process by reading from the read end of the pipe instead of from standard in again you're going to need to use the dupe system call to accomplish this so with the use of our pipe we have successfully bridged communications between the child and parent process these were two processes that were previously disconnected from each other and now they can communicate with each other so that's pipe see you guys later

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Length: 2min 37sec (157 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 11 2014