creating an array of pipes

Hi,
I have a specific number of processes, which were created using fork(), those processes should communicate each with other using pipes. I want to create a dynamic array of pipes or use a Vector so it would contain all the pipes there were created.

each pipe should be of size of 2 integers so the array of the vector size should be arr[N][2].

my problem is that I don't know how to create properly this Vector or Array and pass it correctly to the dup2 function.

Maybe some one could help me with an example?

I build those two functions:

Code:

int** createArrOfPipes(int amount)
{
    int** arr = new int*[amount];

    for (int i=0;i<amount;i++)
    {
        arr[i] = new int[2];
    }

    return arr;
}

void freeArrOfPipes(int** arr, int amount)
{
    for (int i=0;i<amount;i++)
    {
        delete[] arr[i];
    }
    delete[] arr;
}

and tried to use vector, like this:

vector< vector<int> > pipes;
vector<int> read_vec1;
vector<int> write_vec2;
pipes.push_back(read_vec1);
pipes.push_back(write_vec2);


but how to do some thing like this:

Code:

       for(int i=0;i<(sub_commands.size()-1);i++)
        {
            pipe(pipes[i]);
        }

or this:

Code:

              while (dup2 (pipes[(command_index-1)][read], STDIN_FILENO) < 0)   //dup client's sock with stdin
                {
                    if (errno == EINTR) continue;

                    fprintf(stderr,"dup2 failed.");
                }

Thanks in advance.

Code:

int** pipes = createArrOfPipes(amount);
       for(int i=0;i<amount;i++)
        {
            pipe(pipes[i]);
        }

It's just not going to understand STL vectors or anything else.

You might try creating a myPipe class, containing int p[2] say, then making a std::vector of that object, if you want to wrap some C++ around the low-level API.