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Re: Unable to fdopen() a pipe handle


---Craig Setera <setera@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> I've got a chunk of code that create an anonymous pipe using pipe()
and then
> attempts to create a write stream on the pipe using fdopen()
(something like
> this... from memory... not necessarily correct):
> 
> int mypipe[2];
> FILE *mystream;
> 
> pipe(mypipe);
> mystream = fdopen(mypipe[1], "w");
> 
> I can't seem to get fdopen() to return anything other than NULL. 
Any thoughts?

Well, I thought I had some then I started some research.  I've drawn
the conclusion that it won't work because the pipes are half-duplex. 
However, you should be able to fopen a /dev/null and use dup2 to
accomplish what you want (maybe:).

Anybody else?
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