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<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=0.8"/><title>13.1.7 Pipes</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../scribble.css" title="default"/><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="extras.css" title="default"/><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../racket.css" title="default"/><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../manual-style.css" title="default"/><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../manual-racket.css" title="default"/><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../manual-racket.css" title="default"/><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../doc-site.css" title="default"/><script type="text/javascript" src="../scribble-common.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="../manual-racket.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="../manual-racket.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="../doc-site.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="../local-redirect/local-redirect.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="../local-redirect/local-user-redirect.js"></script><!--[if IE 6]><style type="text/css">.SIEHidden { overflow: hidden; }</style><![endif]--></head><body id="doc-racket-lang-org"><div class="tocset"><div class="tocview"><div class="tocviewlist tocviewlisttopspace"><div class="tocviewtitle"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td style="width: 1em;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" title="Expand/Collapse" class="tocviewtoggle" onclick="TocviewToggle(this,"tocview_0");">►</a></td><td></td><td><a href="index.html" class="tocviewlink" data-pltdoc="x">The Racket Reference</a></td></tr></table></div><div class="tocviewsublisttop" style="display: none;" id="tocview_0"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td align="right">1 </td><td><a href="model.html" class="tocviewlink" data-pltdoc="x">Language Model</a></td></tr><tr><td align="right">2 </td><td><a href="notation.html" class="tocviewlink" data-pltdoc="x">Notation for Documentation</a></td></tr><tr><td align="right">3 </td><td><a href="syntax.html" class="tocviewlink" data-pltdoc="x">Syntactic Forms</a></td></tr><tr><td align="right">4 </td><td><a href="data.html" class="tocviewlink" data-pltdoc="x">Datatypes</a></td></tr><tr><td align="right">5 </td><td><a href="structures.html" class="tocviewlink" data-pltdoc="x">Structures</a></td></tr><tr><td align="right">6 </td><td><a href="mzlib_class.html" class="tocviewlink" data-pltdoc="x">Classes and Objects</a></td></tr><tr><td align="right">7 </td><td><a href="mzlib_unit.html" class="tocviewlink" data-pltdoc="x">Units</a></td></tr><tr><td align="right">8 </td><td><a href="contracts.html" class="tocviewlink" data-pltdoc="x">Contracts</a></td></tr><tr><td align="right">9 </td><td><a href="match.html" class="tocviewlink" data-pltdoc="x">Pattern Matching</a></td></tr><tr><td align="right">10 </td><td><a href="control.html" class="tocviewlink" data-pltdoc="x">Control Flow</a></td></tr><tr><td align="right">11 </td><td><a href="concurrency.html" class="tocviewlink" data-pltdoc="x">Concurrency and Parallelism</a></td></tr><tr><td align="right">12 </td><td><a href="Macros.html" class="tocviewlink" data-pltdoc="x">Macros</a></td></tr><tr><td align="right">13 </td><td><a href="input-and-output.html" class="tocviewselflink" data-pltdoc="x">Input and Output</a></td></tr><tr><td align="right">14 </td><td><a href="security.html" class="tocviewlink" data-pltdoc="x">Reflection and Security</a></td></tr><tr><td align="right">15 </td><td><a href="os.html" class="tocviewlink" data-pltdoc="x">Operating System</a></td></tr><tr><td align="right">16 </td><td><a href="memory.html" class="tocviewlink" data-pltdoc="x">Memory Management</a></td></tr><tr><td align="right">17 </td><td><a href="unsafe.html" class="tocviewlink" data-pltdoc="x">Unsafe Operations</a></td></tr><tr><td align="right">18 </td><td><a href="running.html" class="tocviewli
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OS-level pipes for communicating between different
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processes.<span class="refelem"><span class="refcolumn"><span class="refcontent">OS-level pipes may be created by
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<span class="RktSym"><a href="subprocess.html#%28def._%28%28quote._~23~25kernel%29._subprocess%29%29" class="RktValLink" data-pltdoc="x">subprocess</a></span>, opening an existing named file on a Unix
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filesystem, or starting Racket with pipes for its original input,
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output, or error port. Such pipes are <a href="file-ports.html#%28tech._file._stream._port%29" class="techoutside" data-pltdoc="x"><span class="techinside">file-stream ports</span></a>,
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unlike the pipes produced by <span class="RktSym"><a href="pipeports.html#%28def._%28%28quote._~23~25kernel%29._make-pipe%29%29" class="RktValLink" data-pltdoc="x">make-pipe</a></span>.</span></span></span></p><p><div class="SIntrapara"><blockquote class="SVInsetFlow"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="boxed RBoxed"><tr><td><blockquote class="SubFlow"><div class="RBackgroundLabel SIEHidden"><div class="RBackgroundLabelInner"><p>procedure</p></div></div><p class="RForeground"><span class="RktPn">(</span><a name="(def._((quote._~23~25kernel)._make-pipe))"></a><span title="Provided from: racket/base, racket | Package: base"><span class="RktSym"><a href="pipeports.html#%28def._%28%28quote._~23~25kernel%29._make-pipe%29%29" class="RktValDef RktValLink" data-pltdoc="x">make-pipe</a></span></span><span class="hspace"> </span><span class="RktOpt">[</span><span class="RktVar">limit</span><span class="hspace"> </span><span class="RktVar">input-name</span><span class="hspace"> </span><span class="RktVar">output-name</span><span class="RktOpt">]</span><span class="RktPn">)</span></p></blockquote></td></tr><tr><td><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="prototype"><tr><td valign="top"><span class="hspace"> </span></td><td valign="top">→</td><td valign="top"><span class="hspace"> </span></td><td valign="top"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td><span class="RktSym"><a href="port-ops.html#%28def._%28%28quote._~23~25kernel%29._input-port~3f%29%29" class="RktValLink" data-pltdoc="x">input-port?</a></span></td><td><span class="hspace"> </span></td><td><span class="RktSym"><a href="port-ops.html#%28def._%28%28quote._~23~25kernel%29._output-port~3f%29%29" class="RktValLink" data-pltdoc="x">output-port?</a></span></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td><span class="hspace"> </span><span class="RktVar">limit</span><span class="hspace"> </span>:<span class="hspace"> </span><span class="RktSym"><a href="number-types.html#%28def._%28%28quote._~23~25kernel%29._exact-positive-integer~3f%29%29" class="RktValLink" data-pltdoc="x">exact-positive-integer?</a></span><span class="hspace"> </span>=<span class="hspace"> </span><span class="RktVal">#f</span></td></tr><tr><td><span class="hspace"> </span><span class="RktVar">input-name</span><span class="hspace"> </span>:<span class="hspace"> </span><span class="RktSym"><a href="data-structure-contracts.html#%28def._%28%28lib._racket%2Fcontract%2Fprivate%2Fmisc..rkt%29._any%2Fc%29%29" class="RktValLink" data-pltdoc="x">any/c</a></span><span class="hspace"> </span>=<span class="hspace"> </span><span class="RktVal">'</span><span class="RktVal">pipe</span></td></tr><tr><td><span class="hspace"> </span><span class="RktVar">output-name</span><span class="hspace"> </span>:<span class="hspace"> </span><span class="RktSym"><a href="data-structure-contracts.html#%28def._%28%28lib._racket%2Fcontract%2Fprivate%2Fmisc..rkt%29._any%2Fc%29%29" class="RktValLink" data-pltdoc="x">any/c</a></span><span class="hspace"> </span>=<span class="hspace"> </span><span class="RktVal">'</span><span class="RktVal">pipe</span></td></tr></table></blockquote></div><div class="SIntrapara">Returns two port values: the first port is an input port and the
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second is an output port. Data written to the output port is read from
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the input port, with no intermediate buffering. Unlike some other
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kinds of ports, pipe ports do not need to be explicitly closed to be
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reclaimed by <a href="eval-model.html#%28part._gc-model%29" data-pltdoc="x">garbage collection</a>.</div></p><p>If <span class="RktVar">limit</span> is <span class="RktVal">#f</span>, the new pipe holds an unlimited
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number of unread bytes (i.e., limited only by the available
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memory). If <span class="RktVar">limit</span> is a positive number, then the pipe will
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hold at most <span class="RktVar">limit</span> unread/unpeeked bytes; writing to the
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pipe’s output port thereafter will block until a read or peek from the
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input port makes more space available. (Peeks effectively extend the
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port’s capacity until the peeked bytes are read.)</p><p>The optional <span class="RktVar">input-name</span> and <span class="RktVar">output-name</span> are used
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as the names for the returned input and output ports, respectively.</p><p><div class="SIntrapara"><blockquote class="SVInsetFlow"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="boxed RBoxed"><tr><td><blockquote class="SubFlow"><div class="RBackgroundLabel SIEHidden"><div class="RBackgroundLabelInner"><p>procedure</p></div></div><p class="RForeground"><span class="RktPn">(</span><a name="(def._((quote._~23~25kernel)._pipe-content-length))"></a><span title="Provided from: racket/base, racket | Package: base"><span class="RktSym"><a href="pipeports.html#%28def._%28%28quote._~23~25kernel%29._pipe-content-length%29%29" class="RktValDef RktValLink" data-pltdoc="x">pipe-content-length</a></span></span><span class="hspace"> </span><span class="RktVar">pipe-port</span><span class="RktPn">)</span><span class="hspace"> </span>→<span class="hspace"> </span><span class="RktSym"><a href="number-types.html#%28def._%28%28quote._~23~25kernel%29._exact-nonnegative-integer~3f%29%29" class="RktValLink" data-pltdoc="x">exact-nonnegative-integer?</a></span></p></blockquote></td></tr><tr><td><span class="hspace"> </span><span class="RktVar">pipe-port</span><span class="hspace"> </span>:<span class="hspace"> </span><span class="RktSym"><a href="port-ops.html#%28def._%28%28lib._racket%2Fprivate%2Fmisc..rkt%29._port~3f%29%29" class="RktValLink" data-pltdoc="x">port?</a></span></td></tr></table></blockquote></div><div class="SIntrapara">Returns the number of bytes contained in a pipe, where
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<span class="RktVar">pipe-port</span> is either of the pipe’s ports produced by
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<span class="RktSym"><a href="pipeports.html#%28def._%28%28quote._~23~25kernel%29._make-pipe%29%29" class="RktValLink" data-pltdoc="x">make-pipe</a></span>. The pipe’s content length counts all bytes that
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have been written to the pipe and not yet read (though possibly
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