1 /* Test whether a file descriptor is a pipe.
3 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
6 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
7 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
10 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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17 Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */
19 /* Written by Paul Eggert. */
27 #include <sys/types.h>
31 /* The maximum link count for pipes; (nlink_t) -1 if not known. */
32 #ifndef PIPE_LINK_COUNT_MAX
33 # define PIPE_LINK_COUNT_MAX ((nlink_t) (-1))
36 /* Return 1 if FD is a pipe, 0 if not, -1 (setting errno) on error.
38 Test fairly strictly whether FD is a pipe. lseek and checking for
39 ESPIPE does not suffice, since many non-pipe files cause lseek to
40 fail with errno == ESPIPE. */
45 nlink_t pipe_link_count_max = PIPE_LINK_COUNT_MAX;
46 bool check_for_fifo = (HAVE_FIFO_PIPES == 1);
48 int fstat_result = fstat (fd, &st);
50 if (fstat_result != 0)
53 /* We want something that succeeds only for pipes, but on
54 POSIX-conforming hosts S_ISFIFO succeeds for both FIFOs and pipes
55 and we know of no portable, reliable way to distinguish them in
56 general. However, in practice pipes always have a link count <=
57 PIPE_LINK_COUNT_MAX (unless someone attaches them to the file
58 system name space using fattach, in which case they're not really
59 pipes any more), so test for that as well.
61 On Darwin 7.7, pipes are sockets, so check for those instead. */
63 if (! ((HAVE_FIFO_PIPES == 0 || HAVE_FIFO_PIPES == 1)
64 && PIPE_LINK_COUNT_MAX != (nlink_t) -1)
65 && (S_ISFIFO (st.st_mode) | S_ISSOCK (st.st_mode)))
68 int pipe_result = pipe (fd_pair);
74 int fstat_pipe_result = fstat (fd_pair[0], &pipe_st);
75 int fstat_pipe_errno = errno;
78 if (fstat_pipe_result != 0)
80 errno = fstat_pipe_errno;
81 return fstat_pipe_result;
83 check_for_fifo = (S_ISFIFO (pipe_st.st_mode) != 0);
84 pipe_link_count_max = pipe_st.st_nlink;
89 (st.st_nlink <= pipe_link_count_max
90 && (check_for_fifo ? S_ISFIFO (st.st_mode) : S_ISSOCK (st.st_mode)));