Hi,

I am doing programming in C++, under LINUX.
I have two independent processes. I should provide communication using named pipe.

Reader:
-creates FIFO using mkfifo - status = mkfifo(myFIFO, 0666)
-opens the pipe using open - fifo = open (myFIFO,O_RDONLY)
-reads from the pipe - num = read(fifo, temp, sizeof(temp))

Writer:
-opens pipe - fifo = open(myFIFO, O_WRONLY);
-writes to the pipe - num = write(fifo, string, strlen(string));

I have noticed that the file descriptor returned for read process
and write process are 0. Also, after command write, I can see on my terminal, the string which should be written to the pipe. I don't know why it is shown on terminal... Also, the number of bytes that are written is 0...

Would you please help me?
Thank you!!!

Problem solved! Please ignore!

I'm glad you got it solved. Would you please post your solution? It may be helpful to others.

Of course I can... But there is nothing smart in my code. Just simple example for using named pipes...


// read.cpp:

#define myFIFO "/temp/FIFO"

int main(){
int num, fifo, status;
char temp[32];

if ((status = mkfifo(myFIFO, 0666)) < 0) {
printf("\n %s \n", strerror(errno));
return 0;
}

if ((fifo = open(myFIFO, O_RDONLY)) < 0) {
printf("\n %s \n", strerror(errno));
return 0;
}

if ((num= read(fifo, temp, sizeof(temp))) < 0) {
printf("\n %s \n", strerror(errno));
return 0;
}

printf("In FIFO is %s \n", temp);
}


// write.cpp:

#define myFIFO "/temp/FIFO"

int main() {
int status, num, fifo;
char string[]="Testing...";

if ((fifo = open(myFIFO, O_WRONLY)) < 0) {
printf("\n %s \n", strerror(errno));
return 0;
}

if ((num= write(fifo, string, strlen(string))) < 0) {
printf("\n %s \n", strerror(errno));
return 0;
}
}