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create-pipeprocedure

The fundamental pipe-creation operator. Calls the C function pipe() and returns 2 values: the file-descriptors of the input- and output-ends of the pipe.

On Windows, there is an optional parameter MODE, which defaults to open/binary | open/noinherit. This can be open/binary or open/text, optionally or'ed with open/noinherit.