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Process Assignment – 2

Team Emertxe
WAP to avoid a child become
zombie with out blocking the
parent.
Assignment - 2
Requirements
 Create a child process avoid it become a zombie.
Assignment - 2
Requirements
 Create a child process avoid it become a zombie.

Parent
Assignment - 2
Requirements
 Create a child process avoid it become a zombie.

Parent pid 2019


Parent

Child
Assignment - 2
Requirements
 Create a child process avoid it become a zombie.

Parent pid 2019


Child1 with Parent
PID 2020
created
Child
Assignment - 2
Requirements
 To avoid zombie we need to call wait(),

Parent pid 2019


Child1 with Parent
PID 2020
created
Child
Assignment - 2
Requirements
 To avoid zombie we need to call wait(), but this
block parent until child terminates.

Parent pid 2019


Child1 with Parent
PID 2020
created wait()
Child
Assignment - 2
Requirements
 But this block parent until child terminates.

Parent pid 2019


Child1 with Parent
PID 2020
created wait()
Child
Assignment - 2
Requirements
 But this block parent until child terminates.

Parent pid 2019


Child1 with Parent
PID 2020
created wait()
Child
Assignment - 2
Requirements
 So we need to use waitpid() with proper arguments
(Read man page).

Parent pid 2019


Child1 with Parent
PID 2020
created wait()
Child
Assignment - 2
Requirements
 So we need to use waitpid() with proper arguments
(Read man page).

Parent pid 2019


Child1 with Parent
PID 2020
created wait()
Child
waitpid()
Assignment - 2
Requirements
 When child is working parent has to continuously
print some message.
 When ever child terminates parent has to print child
terminated and print exit status of child process.
Assignment - 2
Sample execution
1. ./nonblock_wait
A child created with pid 2020
Assignment - 2
Sample execution
1. ./nonblock_wait
A child created with pid 2020
parent is running
Assignment - 2
Sample execution
1. ./nonblock_wait
A child created with pid 2020
parent is running
parent is running
Assignment - 2
Sample execution
1. ./nonblock_wait
A child created with pid 2020
parent is running
parent is running
parent is running
Assignment - 2
Sample execution
1. ./nonblock_wait
A child created with pid 2020
parent is running
parent is running
parent is running
Child 2020 terminated normally with exit status 0
Assignment - 2
Sample execution
1. ./nonblock_wait
A child created with pid 2020
parent is running
parent is running
parent is running
Child 2020 terminated normally with exit status 0
parent terminating
Assignment - 2
Pre-requisites
 Knowledge about system calls, How to read and
understand ‘man pages’.
Assignment - 2
Pre-requisites
 Knowledge about system calls, How to read and
understand ‘man pages’.
 Good knowledge about processes & zombie process.
Assignment - 2
Pre-requisites
 Knowledge about system calls, How to read and
understand ‘man pages’.
 Good knowledge about processes & zombie process.
 Working of fork & wait system call.
Assignment - 2
Pre-requisites
 Knowledge about system calls, How to read and
understand ‘man pages’.
 Good knowledge about processes & zombie process.
 Working of fork & wait system call.
Objective
 To understand different states of a process.

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