/* ** pipe3.c -- a smartest pipe example */ #include #include #include int main() { int pfds[2]; pipe(pfds); if (!fork()) { close(1); /* close normal stdout */ dup(pfds[1]); /* make stdout same as pfds[1] */ close(pfds[0]); /* we don't need this */ execlp("ls", "ls", NULL); } else { close(0); /* close normal stdin */ dup(pfds[0]); /* make stdin same as pfds[0] */ close(pfds[1]); /* we don't need this */ execlp("wc", "wc", "-l", NULL); } }