C program for pipe in Linux

Working and implementation of Pipe in Linux.

Prerequisite : Pipe in Linux

Approach : Pipe is highly used in Linux. Basically, pipe has 2 parts, one part is for writing and another is used for reading. So, an array of size 2 is taken. a[1] is used for writing and a[0] for reading.After reading from pipe, program will show output on console.

// C program to implement pipe in Linux
#include <errno.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <unistd.h>

int main()
{
    // array of 2 size a[0] is for reading
    // and a[1] is for writing over a pipe
    int a[2];

    // opening of pipe using pipe(a)
    char buff[10];
    if (pipe(a) == -1)
    {
        perror("pipe"); // error in pipe
        exit(1); // exit from the program
    }

    // writing a string "code" in pipe
    write(a[1], "code", 5);
    printf("\n");

    // reading pipe now buff is equal to "code"
    read(a[0], buff, 5);

    // it will print "code"
    printf("%s", buff);
}

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