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 ([email protected]). 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)