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<h1>nng_pipe_dialer(3)</h1>
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<h2 id="_name">NAME</h2>
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<p>nng_pipe_dialer - return dialer that created pipe</p>
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<h2 id="_synopsis">SYNOPSIS</h2>
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<pre class="pygments highlight"><code data-lang="c"><span></span><span class="tok-cp">#include</span><span class="tok-w"> </span><span class="tok-cpf">&lt;nng/nng.h&gt;</span>

<span class="tok-n">nng_dialer</span><span class="tok-w"> </span><span class="tok-nf">nng_pipe_dialer</span><span class="tok-p">(</span><span class="tok-n">nng_pipe</span><span class="tok-w"> </span><span class="tok-n">p</span><span class="tok-p">);</span></code></pre>
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<h2 id="_description">DESCRIPTION</h2>
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<p>The <code>nng_pipe_dialer()</code> function returns the <a href="nng_dialer.5.html"><code>nng_dialer</code></a>
that created the pipe <em>p</em>.
If the pipe was not created by a dialer, then the returned value will
have an identifier (<a href="nng_dialer_id.3.html"><code>nng_dialer_id()</code></a>) of <code>-1</code>.</p>
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<p>This function returns the dialer that created the pipe, unless it was
not created by a dialer, in which case a value initialized with
<code>NNG_DIALER_INITIALIZER</code> will be returned.</p>
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<h2 id="_errors">ERRORS</h2>
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<p>None.</p>
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<p><a href="nng_pipe.5.html">nng_pipe(5)</a>,
<a href="nng_dialer.5.html">nng_dialer(5)</a>,
<a href="nng.7.html">nng(7)</a></p>
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