help on interprocess communication

Fred Christianson flc at n.sp.cs.cmu.edu
Tue Feb 20 01:24:09 AEST 1990


In article <6456 at cps3xx.UUCP> bruey at cpsin2.cps.msu.edu () writes:
>
>Can any of you brainy netlanders give me a hint why this
>doesn't work?
...
>    write(filedes[1],buf,14);
>    if(fork()) 
>     { 
>      read(filedes[1],buf1,14); 
		    ^
		    |
		0 ---
>       printf("in second   %s \n",buf1);    
>     } 
>   }
>
>} 

filedes[1] is for writing and filedes[0] is for reading.  I haven't used
pipes for a while, but that's what my man page says.

----
Fred 



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