/***********************************************************************
* Code listing from "Advanced Linux Programming," by CodeSourcery LLC *
* Copyright (C) 2001 by New Riders Publishing *
* See COPYRIGHT for license information. *
***********************************************************************/
#include
#include
#include
#include
int main ()
{
int fds[2];
pid_t pid;
/* Create a pipe. File descriptors for the two ends of the pipe are
placed in fds. */
pipe (fds);
/* Fork a child process. */
pid = fork ();
if (pid == (pid_t) 0) {
/* This is the child process. Close our copy of the write end of
the file descriptor. */
close (fds[1]);
/* Connect the read end of the pipe to standard input. */
dup2 (fds[0], STDIN_FILENO);
/* Replace the child process with the "sort" program. */
execlp ("sort", "sort", 0);
}
else {
/* This is the parent process. */
FILE* stream;
/* Close our copy of the read end of the file descriptor. */
close (fds[0]);
/* Convert the write file descriptor to a FILE object, and write
to it. */
stream = fdopen (fds[1], "w");
fprintf (stream, "This is a test.\n");
fprintf (stream, "Hello, world.\n");
fprintf (stream, "My dog has fleas.\n");
fprintf (stream, "This program is great.\n");
fprintf (stream, "One fish, two fish.\n");
fflush (stream);
close (fds[1]);
/* Wait for the child process to finish. */
waitpid (pid, NULL, 0);
}
return 0;
}