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+// -*- mode:C++; tab-width:8; c-basic-offset:2; indent-tabs-mode:t -*-
+// vim: ts=8 sw=2 smarttab
+/*
+ * Ceph - scalable distributed file system
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2011 New Dream Network
+ *
+ * This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ * License version 2.1, as published by the Free Software
+ * Foundation. See file COPYING.
+ *
+ */
+
+#ifndef CEPH_COMMON_PIPE_H
+#define CEPH_COMMON_PIPE_H
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C" {
+#endif
+
+/** Create a pipe and set both ends to have F_CLOEXEC
+ *
+ * @param pipefd pipe array, just as in pipe(2)
+ * @return 0 on success, errno otherwise
+ */
+int pipe_cloexec(int pipefd[2]);
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+}
+#endif
+
+#endif