eq::net::PipeConnection Class Reference

A uni-directional pipe connection. More...

#include <pipeConnection.h>

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Public Member Functions
	PipeConnection ()
	Construct a new pipe connection.
virtual	~PipeConnection ()
	Destruct this pipe connection.
virtual bool	connect ()
	Connect to the remote peer.
virtual void	close ()
	Close a connected or listening connection.

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Detailed Description

A uni-directional pipe connection.

The pipe connection is implemented using anonymous pipes, and can therefore only be used between related threads. A PairConnection can be used to create a bi-directional communication using two pipe connections.

Definition at line 40 of file pipeConnection.h.

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Constructor & Destructor Documentation

eq::net::PipeConnection::PipeConnection

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Construct a new pipe connection.

Definition at line 31 of file pipeConnection.cpp.

References eq::net::CONNECTIONTYPE_PIPE.

eq::net::PipeConnection::~PipeConnection

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Destruct this pipe connection.

Definition at line 43 of file pipeConnection.cpp.

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Member Function Documentation

bool eq::net::PipeConnection::connect

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Connect to the remote peer.

The ConnectionDescription of this connection is used to identify the peer's parameters.

Returns:

true if the connection was successfully connected, false if not.

Reimplemented from eq::net::Connection.

Definition at line 178 of file pipeConnection.cpp.

References eq::net::Connection::_description, eq::net::FDConnection::_readFD, eq::net::Connection::_state, eq::net::FDConnection::_writeFD, close(), eq::net::CONNECTIONTYPE_PIPE, EQVERB, eq::net::Connection::STATE_CLOSED, eq::net::Connection::STATE_CONNECTED, and eq::net::Connection::STATE_CONNECTING.

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following files:

• pipeConnection.h
• pipeConnection.cpp