Thread: Trouble with named pipe...

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    Trouble with named pipe...

    Good evening,

    I am trying to use a named pipe to implement communication between two UNIX commands. It does not compile properly. The error message in Dev-C++ is "syntax error before numeric constant". What am I missing?

    Code:
      
    
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <stdlib.h>
    #include <sys/types.h>
    #include <unistd.h>
    #include <sys/stat.h>
    
    int main(int argc, char *argv[]){
    pid_t pid;
    int fd[2];
    int val;
    
    int mkfifo(const char *myFifo, 0644);	    /* create a named pipe */				
    
    pid = fork();					/* fork */
    	if(pid < 0){
    		printf("Cannot fork");
    		exit(1);
    	}
    	if(pid > 0){
    		/* parent process */
    		dup2(fd[1], 1);			
    		close(fd[0]);			
    		execlp("ps", "ps", "-ef", (char *)0);
    	}
    	else if(pid == 0){
    		/* child process */
    		dup2(fd[0], 0);			
    		close(fd[1]);			
    		execlp("grep", "grep", "ct321j", (char *)0);
    	}
    
    }
    Thanks!

    Damien

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    Code:
    int mkfifo(const char *myFifo, 0644);	    /* create a named pipe */
    Did you intend this to be a function call? If so, don't use function prototype syntax for it, but make it look like every other function call in your program.

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    Troubles continue...It does not appear as if the pipe is working. The first part, "ps -ef" is working but not the second part.

    Ideas as to why?


    Code:
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <stdlib.h>
    #include <sys/types.h>
    #include <sys/stat.h>
    #include <unistd.h>
    #include <fcntl.h>
    
    int main(int argc, char *argv[]){
    pid_t pid;
    int fd[2];
    int pipe;
    
    mkfifo("/p2/myFIFO", O_WRONLY);  /* create a named pipe */
        
    pid = fork();           /* fork */
     if(pid < 0){
      printf("Cannot fork");
      exit(1);
     }
     if(pid > 0){
      /* parent process */
            dup2(fd[1], 1);   
      close(fd[0]);   
      execlp("ps", "ps", "-ef", (char *)0);
     }
     else if(pid == 0){
      /* child process */
      dup2(fd[0], 0);   
      close(fd[1]);   
      execlp("grep", "grep", "cm415b", (char *)0);
     }
    }

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    You would have to define "second part" and "not working" for us to get anywhere.

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    Evening!

    What I mean is that the parent process executes "ps -ef" and sends it down the pipe to the child process which uses it as input for grep. I have an example of the unnamed pipe which works as it should. When I run the named pipe, it appears to only run "ps -ef".



    Code:
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <stdlib.h>
    #include <sys/types.h>
    #include <sys/stat.h>
    #include <unistd.h>
    #include <fcntl.h>
    
    int main(int argc, char *argv[]){
    pid_t pid;
    int fd[2];
    int pipe;
    
    mkfifo("/p2/myFIFO", O_WRONLY);  /* create a named pipe */
        
    pid = fork();           /* fork */
     if(pid < 0){
      printf("Cannot fork");
      exit(1);
     }
     if(pid > 0){
      /* parent process */
            dup2(fd[1], 1);   
      close(fd[0]);   
      execlp("ps", "ps", "-ef", (char *)0);
     }
     else if(pid == 0){
      /* child process */
      dup2(fd[0], 0);   
      close(fd[1]);   
      execlp("grep", "grep", "cm415b", (char *)0);
     }
    }

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    Are you expecting fd[1] to be your named pipe? If so, wouldn't you need to put that in your dup2 call instead of stdout?

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