UnixUtils.openPipe

Similar to the UNIX pipe() call, but on modern systems like Linux uses the pipe2() system call, which atomically creates a pipe with the configured flags. The only supported flag currently is FD_CLOEXEC. If for example you want to configure O_NONBLOCK, that must still be done separately with fcntl().

This function does not take O_CLOEXEC, it takes FD_CLOEXEC as if for fcntl(); these are different on Linux/glibc.

struct UnixUtils
static
bool
openPipe
(
int* fds
,
int flags
)

Parameters

fds int*

Array of two integers

flags int

Bitfield of file descriptor flags, as for fcntl()

Return Value

Type: bool

TRUE on success, FALSE if not (and errno will be set).

Throws

GException on failure.

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Since

2.30