Linux System Guide For Programmers
by Stanko Guillaume /
2017 / English / Kindle
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Construction of the pipeline is now complete! The only thing left to do is make use of the pipe. To access a pipe directly, the same system calls that are used for low-level file I/O can be used (recall that pipes are actually represented internally as a valid inode).
To send data to the pipe, we use the write() system call, and to retrieve data from the pipe, we use the read() system call. Remember, low-level file I/O system calls work with file descriptors! However, keep in mind that certain system calls, such as lseek(), do not work with descriptors to pipes.
