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How to use FIFO files to communicate between processes in C

#include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/wait.h> #include <time.h> int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { int arr[5]; srand(time(NULL)); int i; for (i = 0; i < 5; i++) { arr[i] = rand() % 100; printf("Generated %d\n", arr[i]); } // NOTE: You will have to create the fifo using the command "mkfifo sum" int fd = open("sum", O_WRONLY); if (fd == -1) { return 1; } if (write(fd, arr, sizeof(int) * 5) == -1) { return 2; } close(fd); return 0; }
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