Support for unidirectional pipes, by Ed Swierk.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@2267 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
index 7e161c69c4..b3e07acc52 100644
--- a/vl.c
+++ b/vl.c
@@ -1297,12 +1297,23 @@ CharDriverState *qemu_chr_open_file_out(const char *file_out)
 
 CharDriverState *qemu_chr_open_pipe(const char *filename)
 {
-    int fd;
-
-    fd = open(filename, O_RDWR | O_BINARY);
-    if (fd < 0)
-        return NULL;
-    return qemu_chr_open_fd(fd, fd);
+    int fd_in, fd_out;
+    char filename_in[256], filename_out[256];
+
+    snprintf(filename_in, 256, "%s.in", filename);
+    snprintf(filename_out, 256, "%s.out", filename);
+    fd_in = open(filename_in, O_RDWR | O_BINARY);
+    fd_out = open(filename_out, O_RDWR | O_BINARY);
+    if (fd_in < 0 || fd_out < 0) {
+	if (fd_in >= 0)
+	    close(fd_in);
+	if (fd_out >= 0)
+	    close(fd_out);
+        fd_in = fd_out = open(filename, O_RDWR | O_BINARY);
+        if (fd_in < 0)
+            return NULL;
+    }
+    return qemu_chr_open_fd(fd_in, fd_out);
 }