Questions tagged [unnamed-pipes]

I'm writing a code where a parent forks several children, after creating a pipe for each one. In a while loop, the parent aks the user for some input, and communicates it to a child using a pipe, so the child needs to do some stuff about the input.…

I'm having difficulty understanding the behavior of fork(). I thought the child process will execute the lines "after" the fork(). So I expected to see only one "Hello world!", but this code: printf("Hello World!\n"); fork(); return 0; outputs two…

So, I'm playing with pipes in c, and I have an exercise where I call a program through command line as this: "./self 1" which then calls itself with execlp but with an argument 2: "./self 2" which further on calls itself with argument 3: "./self 3".…

I am trying to have a process read both from a named pipe and some unnamed pipes. First I have a main process that creates a child process and then initializes a named pipe that waits for data from the terminal to send to the named pipe: int…