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Fifo PGM

This C code implements a simple client-server model using FIFOs instead of pipes. It creates two FIFOs, forks a child process, and has the parent and child open the FIFOs for reading and writing to allow communication between the client and server processes. The FIFOs are unlinked after the processes finish to remove the special files.

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Fifo PGM

This C code implements a simple client-server model using FIFOs instead of pipes. It creates two FIFOs, forks a child process, and has the parent and child open the FIFOs for reading and writing to allow communication between the client and server processes. The FIFOs are unlinked after the processes finish to remove the special files.

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/* use FIFOs, not PIPES to implement the simple client-server model.

*/
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/errno.h>
extern int errno;
#define FIFO1 "/tmp/fifo.1"
#define FIFO2 "/tmp/fifo.2"
#define PERMS 0666 /* octal value*/
main()
{ int childpid, readfd, writefd;
if ( (mkfifo(FIFO1, PERMS) < 0) && (errno != EEXIST))
err_sys("can't create fifo 1: %s", FIFO1);
if ( (mkfifo(FIFO2, PERMS) < 0) && (errno != EEXIST)) {
unlink(FIFO1);
err_sys("can't create fifo 2: %s", FIFO2); }
if ( (childpid = fork()) < 0) {err_sys("can't fork"); }
else if (childpid > 0) { /* parent */
if ( (writefd = open(FIFO1, 1)) < 0)
err_sys("parent: can't open write fifo");
if ( (readfd = open(FIFO2, 0)) < 0)
err_sys("parent: can't open read fifo");
client(readfd, writefd);
while (wait((int *) 0) != childpid) /* wait for child */
;
close(readfd);
close(writefd);
if (unlink(FIFO1) < 0)
err_sys("parent: can't unlink %s", FIFO1);
if (unlink(FIFO2) < 0)
err_sys("parent: can't unlink %s", FIFO2);
exit(0);
} else { /* child */
if ( (readfd = open(FIFO1, 0)) < 0)
err_sys("child: can't open read fifo");
if ( (writefd = open(FIFO2, 1)) < 0)
err_sys("child: can't open write fifo");
server(readfd, writefd);
close(readfd);
close(writefd);
exit(0);
}
}

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