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Operating Systems (CS3000)

Lecture – 16
(Inter Process Communication - 2)

Dr. Jaishree Mayank


Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Sc. and Engg.
Message Passing using Pipes
• Pipe is a communication between parent and child process
• Communication is achieved by one process writing into the pipe and
other reading from the pipe
• To achieve the pipe system call, create two descriptors, one to write
into the file and another to read from the file.
• Patent  Child

Write
Pipe
Read

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Creating Pipe between Parent and Child process
• int pipe(int pipefd[2]);
• a file descriptor is used to access the two ends of the pipe: one end
for reading and one end for writing

 pipefd[0] is the file descriptor for reading.


 pipefd[1] is the file descriptor for writing.
• Returns zero on success
• Returns -1 in case of failure

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Message Passing using Pipes
• ssize_t read(int fd, void *buf, size_t count)

 The file descriptor to read from.


 A pointer to a buffer where the read data will be stored.
 The maximum number of bytes to read.

• Returns the number of bytes read


• Returns -1 in case of failure

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Message Passing using Pipes
• ssize_t write(int fd, void *buf, size_t count)


The file descriptor to write to.

A pointer to a buffer where the write data will be stored.

The maximum number of bytes to write.
• Return the number of bytes written
• Return zero in case nothing is written
• Return -1 in case of failure

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Message Passing using Pipes
• _int close(int fd)


Closing the pipe end.

• Return zero on success


• Return -1 in case of failure

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Message Passing using Pipes
• Algorithm
• Step 1 − Create a pipe
• Step 2 − Create a child process
• Step 3 − Parent process writes to the pipe
• Step 4 − Child process retrieves the message from the pipe and
writes it to the standard output
• Step 5 − Repeat step 3 and step 4 once again

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Two-way Communication Using Pipes
• If both the parent and the child needs to write and read from the
pipes simultaneously
• Two pipes are required

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Two-way Communication Using Pipes
• Algorithm
• Step 1 − Create pipe1 for the parent process to write and the child
process to read
• Step 2 − Create pipe2 for the child process to write and the parent
process to read
• Step 3 − Close the unwanted ends of the pipe from the parent and
child side
• Step 4 − Parent process to write a message and child process to
read and display on the screen
• Step 5 − Child process to write a message and parent process to
read and display on the screen

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Pipe1.c

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Pipe2.c

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Thank You
Any Questions?

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