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+/* Test whether a file descriptor is a pipe.
+
+ Copyright (C) 2006, 2008-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+ This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+ (at your option) any later version.
+
+ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
+
+/* Written by Paul Eggert. */
+
+#include <config.h>
+
+#include "isapipe.h"
+
+#include <errno.h>
+
+#if defined _WIN32 && ! defined __CYGWIN__
+/* Windows platforms. */
+
+/* Get GetFileType. */
+# include <windows.h>
+
+/* Get _get_osfhandle. */
+# if GNULIB_MSVC_NOTHROW
+# include "msvc-nothrow.h"
+# else
+# include <io.h>
+# endif
+
+int
+isapipe (int fd)
+{
+ HANDLE h = (HANDLE) _get_osfhandle (fd);
+
+ if (h == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
+ {
+ errno = EBADF;
+ return -1;
+ }
+
+ return (GetFileType (h) == FILE_TYPE_PIPE);
+}
+
+#else
+/* Unix platforms. */
+
+# include <stdbool.h>
+# include <sys/types.h>
+# include <sys/stat.h>
+# include <unistd.h>
+
+/* The maximum link count for pipes; (nlink_t) -1 if not known. */
+# ifndef PIPE_LINK_COUNT_MAX
+# define PIPE_LINK_COUNT_MAX ((nlink_t) (-1))
+# endif
+
+/* Return 1 if FD is a pipe, 0 if not, -1 (setting errno) on error.
+
+ Test fairly strictly whether FD is a pipe. lseek and checking for
+ ESPIPE does not suffice, since many non-pipe files cause lseek to
+ fail with errno == ESPIPE. */
+
+int
+isapipe (int fd)
+{
+ nlink_t pipe_link_count_max = PIPE_LINK_COUNT_MAX;
+ bool check_for_fifo = (HAVE_FIFO_PIPES == 1);
+ struct stat st;
+ int fstat_result = fstat (fd, &st);
+
+ if (fstat_result != 0)
+ return fstat_result;
+
+ /* We want something that succeeds only for pipes, but on
+ POSIX-conforming hosts S_ISFIFO succeeds for both FIFOs and pipes
+ and we know of no portable, reliable way to distinguish them in
+ general. However, in practice pipes always have a link count <=
+ PIPE_LINK_COUNT_MAX (unless someone attaches them to the file
+ system name space using fattach, in which case they're not really
+ pipes any more), so test for that as well.
+
+ On Darwin 7.7, pipes are sockets, so check for those instead. */
+
+ if (! ((HAVE_FIFO_PIPES == 0 || HAVE_FIFO_PIPES == 1)
+ && PIPE_LINK_COUNT_MAX != (nlink_t) -1)
+ && (S_ISFIFO (st.st_mode) | S_ISSOCK (st.st_mode)))
+ {
+ int fd_pair[2];
+ int pipe_result = pipe (fd_pair);
+ if (pipe_result != 0)
+ return pipe_result;
+ else
+ {
+ struct stat pipe_st;
+ int fstat_pipe_result = fstat (fd_pair[0], &pipe_st);
+ int fstat_pipe_errno = errno;
+ close (fd_pair[0]);
+ close (fd_pair[1]);
+ if (fstat_pipe_result != 0)
+ {
+ errno = fstat_pipe_errno;
+ return fstat_pipe_result;
+ }
+ check_for_fifo = (S_ISFIFO (pipe_st.st_mode) != 0);
+ pipe_link_count_max = pipe_st.st_nlink;
+ }
+ }
+
+ return
+ (st.st_nlink <= pipe_link_count_max
+ && (check_for_fifo ? S_ISFIFO (st.st_mode) : S_ISSOCK (st.st_mode)));
+}
+
+#endif