busybox/archival/libunarchive/open_transformer.c

/*
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 */

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>

#include "libbb.h"

/* transformer(), more than meets the eye */
int open_transformer(int src_fd, int (*transformer)(int src_fd, int dst_fd))
{
	int fd_pipe[2];
	int pid;

	if (pipe(fd_pipe) != 0) {
		bb_perror_msg_and_die("Can't create pipe");
	}

	pid = fork();
	if (pid == -1) {
		bb_perror_msg_and_die("Fork failed");
	}

	if (pid == 0) {
		/* child process */
	    close(fd_pipe[0]); /* We don't wan't to read from the parent */
	    transformer(src_fd, fd_pipe[1]);
	    close(fd_pipe[1]); /* Send EOF */
		close(src_fd);
	    exit(0);
	    /* notreached */
	}

	/* parent process */
	close(fd_pipe[1]); /* Don't want to write to the child */

	return(fd_pipe[0]);
}