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Old 10-15-2008
Pipe problem

Could anyone tell me whats wrong whit this piping? the commands that they execute are correct. the command I am trying is ls|wc. Both processes go to the right if statement.


Code:
for(i=0;i<argc;i++){
   
       if(i==0&&argc>1){//first command
           if(pipe(pipa1)==-1)
               perror("pipe");
           if((pid=fork())<0)    
                perror("fork");
            if(pid==0){//child
                printf("jag är fösta kommandot");
                printf("I am a 1 process--%d, my parent is--%d jag skall exikvera--%s\n ",getpid(),getppid(),com[i].argv[0]);
                dupPipe(pipa1, WRITE_END, STDOUT_FILENO);
                execvp(com[i].argv[0],com[i].argv);
            }                
       }
       if (i>0 && argc==2) {       
         pid = fork();          
         if (pid == 0) {        
            printf("jag är andra kommandot");
            printf("I am a process--%d, my parent is--%d jag skall exikvera--%s \n ",getpid(),getppid(),com[i].argv[0]);
            dupPipe(pipa1, READ_END, STDIN_FILENO);
            execvp(com[i].argv[0],com[i].argv);
             }
   
        }


Code:
/* Duplicate a pipe to a standard I/O file descriptor, and close both pipe ends
 * Arguments:    pip    the pipe
 *        end    tells which end of the pipe shold be dup'ed; it can be
 *            one of READ_END or WRITE_END
 *        destfd    the standard I/O file descriptor to be replaced
 * Returns:    -1 on error, else destfd
 */
int dupPipe(int pip[2], int end, int destfd){
 
  if (-1 == dup2 (pip[end], destfd))
    {
      perror ("dupPipe()");
      return -1;
    }
  return destfd;
}

# 2  
Old 10-16-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by isato
Could anyone tell me whats wrong whit this piping? the commands that they execute are correct. the command I am trying is ls|wc. Both processes go to the right if statement.


Code:
for(i=0;i<argc;i++){
   
       if(i==0&&argc>1){//first command
           if(pipe(pipa1)==-1)
               perror("pipe");
           if((pid=fork())<0)    
                perror("fork");
            if(pid==0){//child
                printf("jag är fösta kommandot");
                printf("I am a 1 process--%d, my parent is--%d jag skall exikvera--%s\n ",getpid(),getppid(),com[i].argv[0]);
                dupPipe(pipa1, WRITE_END, STDOUT_FILENO);
                execvp(com[i].argv[0],com[i].argv);
            }                
       }
       if (i>0 && argc==2) {       
         pid = fork();          
         if (pid == 0) {        
            printf("jag är andra kommandot");
            printf("I am a process--%d, my parent is--%d jag skall exikvera--%s \n ",getpid(),getppid(),com[i].argv[0]);
            dupPipe(pipa1, READ_END, STDIN_FILENO);
            execvp(com[i].argv[0],com[i].argv);
             }
   
        }


Code:
/* Duplicate a pipe to a standard I/O file descriptor, and close both pipe ends
 * Arguments:    pip    the pipe
 *        end    tells which end of the pipe shold be dup'ed; it can be
 *            one of READ_END or WRITE_END
 *        destfd    the standard I/O file descriptor to be replaced
 * Returns:    -1 on error, else destfd
 */
int dupPipe(int pip[2], int end, int destfd){
 
  if (-1 == dup2 (pip[end], destfd))
    {
      perror ("dupPipe()");
      return -1;
    }
  return destfd;
}

You're not capturing the return value of the dupPipe function in main() outlined in red. The newly created destfd is lost so you can't connect the two processes together.
# 3  
Old 10-16-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by shamrock
You're not capturing the return value of the dupPipe function in main() outlined in red. The newly created destfd is lost so you can't connect the two processes together.
I think I have figured it out. I am creating a new pipe for every process in the for -loop( not shown in the code).
I am not anymore.


Now I am able to do for example ls|wc. but I have to finish whit an Enter. I think it has to do whit not closed pipe ends in parent.
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