Perl6 forks and pipes

fork.pm6

use NativeCall;

# http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=989766
our sub c_close(int32) returns int32 is native is symbol('close') { * }
our sub c_fork() returns int32 is native is symbol('fork') { ... };
our sub c_pipe(CArray[int32]) returns int32 is native is symbol('pipe') { ... }
our sub c_puts(Str) is native is symbol("puts") { * }
our sub c_read(int32, CArray[uint8], size_t) returns ssize_t is native is symbol('read') { *}
our sub c_wait(int32 is rw) is native is symbol('wait') { * }
our sub c_waitpid(int32, Pointer, int32) returns int32 is native is symbol('waitpid') {*};
our sub c_write(int32, Str is encoded('utf8'), size_t) returns ssize_t is native is symbol('write') { *}


my @fd := CArray[int32].new(0, 0);
my $pok = c_pipe(@fd);
if ($pok == -1) { die "Pipe failed" ; }


# See:
# https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Fork#Perl_6
my $pid = c_fork();
if ( $pid < 0) { die "Fork failed" ; }
if ( $pid == 0) {
        print "C: I am the child\n";
        if (c_close(@fd[1]) == -1) { die "Child couldn't close fd[1]" };
        my uint8 $b0 = 0;
        my @buf := CArray[uint8].new( $b0 xx 80);
        say "C: starting read";
        my $nread = c_read(@fd[0], @buf, 80);
        print "C: nread=$nread\n";
        my $msg = "";
        for (0..$nread-1) -> $i { $msg = $msg ~ chr(@buf[$i]); } ;
        print "C: message:$msg.\n";
        c_close(@fd[0]);
} else {
        print "P: I am the parent of $pid\n";
        if (c_close(@fd[0]) == -1) { die "Parent couldn't close fd[0]"; } ;
        my $msg  = "Hello from parent";
        my $len =  $msg.encode('utf8').bytes;
        print "P: test put string: ";
        c_puts($msg);
        my $nwritten =c_write(@fd[1], $msg, $len);
        print "P: len $len, wrote $nwritten\n";
        say "P: Finished writing";
        c_close(@fd[1]);
        my $stat_loc;
        c_waitpid($pid, $stat_loc ,0);
}

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