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AssignPipe

   

Declaration:

Procedure AssignPipe (Pipe_in ; Pipe_out : Text) ;

Description:

Creates a pipe, i.e. two file objects, one for input, one for output. What is written to Pipe_out, can be read from Pipe_in. Reading and writing happens through the usual Readln(Pipe_in,...) and Writeln (Pipe_out,...) procedures.

Errors:

LinuxError is used to report errors:

sys_emfile
Too many file descriptors for this process.
sys_enfile
The system file table is full.

See also:

POpen,pipe(2)



Michael Van Canneyt
Thu Dec 12 15:40:07 MET 1996