pipe

   Creates a temporary mailbox that can be used to read and write
   data between a parent and child process. The channels through
   which the processes communicate are called a pipe.

   Format

     #include  <unistd.h>

     int pipe  (int array_fdscptr[2]); (ISO POSIX-1)

     int pipe  (int array_fdscptr[2], . . . ); (DEC C Extension)
 

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