12.1.7 Pipes
A Racket pipe is internal to Racket, and not related to OS-level pipes (which are file-stream ports) for communicating between different processes.
| (make-pipe [limit input-name output-name]) | |||||||
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| limit : exact-positive-integer? = #f | |||||||
| input-name : any/c = 'pipe | |||||||
| output-name : any/c = 'pipe |
Returns two port values: the first port is an input port and the
second is an output port. Data written to the output port is read from
the input port, with no intermediate buffering. Unlike some other
kinds of ports, pipe ports do not need to be explicitly closed to be
reclaimed by garbage collection.
If limit is #f, the new pipe holds an unlimited number of unread bytes (i.e., limited only by the available memory). If limit is a positive number, then the pipe will hold at most limit unread/unpeeked bytes; writing to the pipe’s output port thereafter will block until a read or peek from the input port makes more space available. (Peeks effectively extend the port’s capacity until the peeked bytes are read.)
The optional input-name and output-name are used as the names for the returned input and output ports, respectively.
| (pipe-content-length pipe-port) → exact-nonnegative-integer? |
| pipe-port : port? |
Returns the number of bytes contained in a pipe, where
pipe-port is either of the pipe’s ports produced by
make-pipe. The pipe’s content length counts all bytes that
have been written to the pipe and not yet read (though possibly
peeked).