Piping for input/output

Question

This question follows from my attempt to implement the instructions in:

Linux Pipes as Input and Output

How to send a simple string between two programs usin

Answer 1

#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 
using namespace std;
int main() {
    int i, status, len;
    char str[10];
    mknod("pipe", S_IFIFO | S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR, 0); //create named pipe
    pid_t pid = fork(); // create new process
    /* Process A */
    if (pid == 0) {
        int myPipe = open("pipe", O_WRONLY); // returns a file descriptor for the pipe
        cout << "\nThis is process A having PID= " << getpid(); //Get pid of process A
        cout << "\nEnter the string: ";
        cin >> str;
        len = strlen(str);
        write(myPipe, str, len); //Process A write to the named pipe
        cout << "Process A sent " << str;
        close(myPipe); //closes the file descriptor fields.
        }
    /* Process B */
        else {
        int myPipe = open("pipe", O_RDONLY); //Open the pipe and returns file descriptor
        char buffer[21];
        int pid_child;
        pid_child = wait(&status); //wait until any one child process terminates
        int length = read(myPipe, buffer, 20); //reads up to size bytes from pipe with descriptor fields, store results
    //  in buffer;
        cout<< "\n\nThis is process B having PID= " << getpid();//Get pid of process B
        buffer[length] = '\0';
        cout << "\nProcess B received " << buffer;
        i = 0;
        //Reverse the string
        for (length = length - 1; length >= 0; length--)
        str[i++] = buffer[length];
        str[i] = '\0';
        cout << "\nRevers of string is " << str;
        close(myPipe);
        }
    unlink("pipe");
return 0;
}