Sockets.socketPair(3kaya)				       Kaya module reference					 Sockets.socketPair(3kaya)

NAME

       Sockets::socketPair - Create a joined pair of sockets

SYNOPSIS

       Pair<Socket, Socket> socketPair( )

DESCRIPTION

       This  function  creates	a pair of sockets that can be used for bi-directional communication. The most common use of this is for setting up
       communications between a process and its Posix.fork(3kaya) ()ed child - each process closes one of the sockets after the fork.

    sockets = socketPair();
    pid = fork();
    if (pid == 0) {
    // child process
      close(sockets.fst);
      // do something
    } else {
      close(sockets.snd);
      // do something else
    }

AUTHORS

       Kaya standard library by Edwin Brady, Chris Morris and others (kaya@kayalang.org). For further information see http://kayalang.org/

LICENSE

       The Kaya standard library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms  of  the  GNU  Lesser  General  Public
       License (version 2.1 or any later version) as published by the Free Software Foundation.

RELATED

       Sockets.Socket(3kaya)
       Sockets.close(3kaya)
       Posix.fork(3kaya)

Kaya								   October 2012 					 Sockets.socketPair(3kaya)