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Sockets.socketPair(3kaya) Kaya module reference Sockets.socketPair(3kaya)

NAME

Sockets::socketPair - Create a joined pair of sockets

SYNOPSIS

Pair<Socket, Socket> socketPair( )

DESCRIPTION

This function creates a pair of sockets that can be used for bi-directional communication. The most common use of this is for setting up communications between a process and its Posix.fork (3kaya) ()ed child - each process closes one of the sockets after the fork.

sockets = socketPair();
pid = fork();
if (pid == 0) {
// child process
close(sockets.fst);
// do something
} else {
close(sockets.snd);
// do something else
}

AUTHORS

Kaya standard library by Edwin Brady, Chris Morris and others (kaya@kayalang.org). For further information see http://kayalang.org/

LICENSE

The Kaya standard library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (version 2.1 or any later version) as published by the Free Software Foundation.

RELATED

Sockets.Socket (3kaya)
Sockets.close (3kaya)
Posix.fork (3kaya)
August 2014 Kaya