/usr/lib/swipl/library/unix.pl
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  • swipl
    • library
      • error.pl
      • apply.pl
      • lists.pl -- List Manipulation
      • debug.pl
      • broadcast.pl
      • socket.pl -- Network socket (TCP and UDP) library
      • predicate_options.pl -- Access and analyse predicate options
      • shlib.pl -- Utility library for loading foreign objects (DLLs, shared objects)
      • option.pl -- Option list processing
      • uid.pl -- User and group management on Unix systems
      • unix.pl -- Unix specific operations
        • fork/1
        • fork_exec/1
        • exec/1
        • wait/2
        • kill/2
        • pipe/2
        • dup/2
        • detach_IO/1
        • detach_IO/0
        • prctl/1
        • sysconf/1
      • syslog.pl
      • thread_pool.pl
      • gensym.pl
      • settings.pl -- Setting management
      • arithmetic.pl -- Extensible arithmetic
      • main.pl -- Provide entry point for scripts
      • readutil.pl -- Read utilities
      • ssl.pl -- Secure Socket Layer (SSL) library
      • crypto.pl -- Cryptography and authentication library
      • pldoc.pl -- Process source documentation
      • operators.pl -- Manage operators
      • pairs.pl -- Operations on key-value lists
      • prolog_source.pl -- Examine Prolog source-files
      • pengines.pl -- Pengines: Web Logic Programming Made Easy
      • record.pl -- Access compound arguments by name
      • memfile.pl
      • sgml.pl -- SGML, XML and HTML parser
      • quasi_quotations.pl -- Define Quasi Quotation syntax
      • pure_input.pl -- Pure Input from files and streams
      • time.pl -- Time and alarm library
      • uri.pl -- Process URIs
      • solution_sequences.pl -- Modify solution sequences
      • uuid.pl -- Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) Library
      • ordsets.pl -- Ordered set manipulation
      • random.pl -- Random numbers
      • base64.pl -- Base64 encoding and decoding
      • aggregate.pl -- Aggregation operators on backtrackable predicates
      • pcre.pl -- Perl compatible regular expression matching for SWI-Prolog
      • pengines_io.pl -- Provide Prolog I/O for HTML clients
      • sandbox.pl -- Sandboxed Prolog code
      • apply_macros.pl -- Goal expansion rules to avoid meta-calling
      • assoc.pl -- Binary associations
      • prolog_format.pl -- Analyse format specifications
      • yall.pl -- Lambda expressions
      • sha.pl -- SHA secure hashes
      • process.pl -- Create processes and redirect I/O
      • filesex.pl -- Extended operations on files
      • zlib.pl -- Zlib wrapper for SWI-Prolog
      • bdb.pl -- Berkeley DB interface
      • hash_stream.pl -- Maintain a hash on a stream
      • md5.pl -- MD5 hashes
      • porter_stem.pl
      • csv.pl -- Process CSV (Comma-Separated Values) data
      • pprint.pl -- Pretty Print Prolog terms
      • atom.pl -- Operations on atoms
      • ctypes.pl -- Character code classification
      • modules.pl -- Module utility predicates
      • occurs.pl -- Finding and counting sub-terms
      • prolog_xref.pl -- Prolog cross-referencer data collection
      • prolog_colour.pl -- Prolog syntax colouring support.
      • lazy_lists.pl -- Lazy list handling
      • prolog_code.pl -- Utilities for reasoning about code
      • ugraphs.pl -- Graph manipulation library
      • xpath.pl -- Select nodes in an XML DOM
      • iostream.pl -- Utilities to deal with streams
      • doc_http.pl -- Documentation server
      • url.pl -- Analysing and constructing URL
      • www_browser.pl -- Open a URL in the users browser
      • prolog_pack.pl -- A package manager for Prolog
      • prolog_config.pl -- Provide configuration information
      • git.pl -- Run GIT commands
      • strings.pl -- String utilities
      • dif.pl -- The dif/2 constraint
      • dialect.pl -- Support multiple Prolog dialects
      • edinburgh.pl -- Some traditional Edinburgh predicates
      • ansi_term.pl -- Print decorated text to ANSI consoles
      • terms.pl -- Term manipulation
      • listing.pl -- List programs and pretty print clauses
      • persistency.pl -- Provide persistent dynamic predicates
      • pengines_sandbox.pl -- Declare Pengine interaction sandbox-safe
      • term_to_json.pl
      • prolog_stack.pl -- Examine the Prolog stack
      • prolog_clause.pl -- Get detailed source-information about a clause
      • prolog_breakpoints.pl -- Manage Prolog break-points
      • wfs.pl -- Well Founded Semantics interface
      • mallocinfo.pl -- Memory allocation details
      • chr.pl
      • sort.pl
      • dicts.pl -- Dict utilities
      • varnumbers.pl -- Utilities for numbered terms
      • writef.pl -- Old-style formatted write
      • nb_set.pl -- Non-backtrackable sets
      • backcomp.pl -- Backward compatibility
      • rbtrees.pl -- Red black trees
      • prolog_stream.pl -- A stream with Prolog callbacks
      • charsio.pl -- I/O on Lists of Character Codes
      • macros.pl -- Macro expansion
      • optparse.pl -- command line parsing
      • statistics.pl -- Get information about resource usage
      • xmlenc.pl -- XML encryption library
      • tables.pl -- XSB interface to tables
      • prolog_versions.pl -- Demand specific Prolog versions
      • sgml_write.pl -- XML/SGML writer module
      • check.pl -- Consistency checking
      • prolog_codewalk.pl -- Prolog code walker
      • redis.pl -- Redis client
      • xmldsig.pl -- XML Digital signature
      • c14n2.pl -- C14n2 canonical XML documents
      • date.pl -- Process dates and times
      • prolog_history.pl -- Per-directory persistent commandline history
      • base32.pl -- Base32 encoding and decoding
      • readline.pl -- GNU readline interface
      • make.pl -- Reload modified source files
      • intercept.pl -- Intercept and signal interface
      • odbc.pl
      • prolog_jiti.pl -- Just In Time Indexing (JITI) utilities
      • streams.pl -- Manage Prolog streams
      • oset.pl -- Ordered set manipulation
      • pwp.pl -- Prolog Well-formed Pages
      • fastrw.pl -- Fast reading and writing of terms
      • doc_latex.pl -- PlDoc LaTeX backend
      • when.pl -- Conditional coroutining
      • heaps.pl -- heaps/priority queues
      • prolog_debug.pl -- User level debugging tools
      • yaml.pl -- Process YAML data
      • utf8.pl -- UTF-8 encoding/decoding on lists of character codes.
      • crypt.pl
      • rlimit.pl
      • redis_streams.pl -- Using Redis streams
      • help.pl -- Text based manual
      • codesio.pl -- I/O on Lists of Character Codes
      • coinduction.pl -- Co-Logic Programming
      • stomp.pl -- STOMP client.
      • paxos.pl -- A Replicated Data Store
      • doc_files.pl -- Create stand-alone documentation files
      • zip.pl -- Access resource ZIP archives
      • rdf_parser.pl
      • rewrite_term.pl
      • threadutil.pl -- Interactive thread utilities
      • prolog_trace.pl -- Print access to predicates
      • prolog_wrap.pl -- Wrapping predicates
      • prolog_metainference.pl -- Infer meta-predicate properties
      • table.pl
      • archive.pl -- Access several archive formats
      • mqi.pl
      • isub.pl -- isub: a string similarity measure
      • explain.pl -- Describe Prolog Terms
      • editline.pl -- BSD libedit based command line editing
      • tty.pl -- Terminal operations
      • prolog_profile.pl -- Execution profiler
      • test_cover.pl -- Clause coverage analysis
      • prolog_autoload.pl -- Autoload all dependencies
      • udp_broadcast.pl -- A UDP broadcast proxy
      • system.pl -- System utilities
      • hashtable.pl -- Hash tables
      • quintus.pl -- Quintus compatibility
      • shell.pl -- Elementary shell commands
      • files.pl
      • edit.pl -- Editor interface
      • streampool.pl -- Input multiplexing
      • rdf.pl -- RDF/XML parser
      • cgi.pl -- Read CGI parameters
      • rdf_triple.pl -- Create triples from intermediate representation
      • double_metaphone.pl -- Phonetic string matching
      • plunit.pl -- Unit Testing
      • protobufs.pl -- Google's Protocol Buffers ("protobufs")
      • snowball.pl -- The Snowball multi-lingual stemmer library
      • rdf_write.pl -- Write RDF/XML from a list of triples
      • thread.pl -- High level thread primitives
      • qsave.pl -- Save current program as a state or executable
      • portray_text.pl -- Portray text
      • increval.pl -- Incremental dynamic predicate modification
      • unicode.pl -- Unicode string handling
      • rwlocks.pl -- Read/write locks
      • readln.pl -- Read line as list of tokens
      • xsdp_types.pl -- XML-Schema primitive types
      • pio.pl -- Pure I/O
 pipe(-InSream, -OutStream) is det
Create a communication-pipe. This is normally used to make a child communicate to its parent. After pipe/2, the process is cloned and, depending on the desired direction, both processes close the end of the pipe they do not use. Then they use the remaining stream to communicate. Here is a simple example:
:- use_module(library(unix)).

fork_demo(Result) :-
        pipe(Read, Write),
        fork(Pid),
        (   Pid == child
        ->  close(Read),
            format(Write, '~q.~n',
                   [hello(world)]),
            flush_output(Write),
            halt
        ;   close(Write),
            read(Read, Result),
            close(Read)
        ).