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35 * Open two pipes to a child process, one for reading, one for writing.
36 * The pipes are accessed by FILE pointers. This is NOT a public
37 * interface, but for internal use only!
47 * returns pid, or -1 for failure
50 _openchild (char *command, FILE ** fto, FILE ** ffrom)
59 if (pipe (pdfrom) < 0)
61 switch (pid = fork ())
68 * child: read from pdto[0], write into pdfrom[1]
75 for (i = _rpc_dtablesize () - 1; i >= 3; i--)
78 execlp (command, command, 0);
84 * parent: write into pdto[1], read from pdfrom[0]
86 *fto = fdopen (pdto[1], "w");
88 *ffrom = fdopen (pdfrom[0], "r");
95 * error cleanup and return