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Process - Management Part 4

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Process and process Management part 4

Agenda

system();
perror();
fork();

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System() function
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The system() function allows the calling program to execute a shell
command.
int system( const char *command );
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The system() function creates a child process that invokes a shell
to execute command. Here is an example of a call to system():
system(“ls -l”);
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system() executes a command specified in the brackets by
calling /bin/sh -c command, returns after the command has been
completed.
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It returns -1 on error

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System() function (Contd..)

#include <stdio.h>
main()
{
printf(“Hello\n”);
system(“ls”);
printf(“Hi”);
}

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System() function (Contd..)
#include <stdio.h>
main()
{
printf(“Hello\n”);
system(“cal”);
system(“pwd”);
printf(“Hi”);
}

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Perror() function
void perror ( const char *s );
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The perror() function produces a message on standard error
describing the last error encountered during a call to a system
or library function.
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First (if s is not NULL and *s is not a null byte ('\0')), the
argument string s is printed, followed by a colon and a blank.
Then an error message corresponding to the current value of
errno and a new-line.
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The <errno.h> header file defines the integer variable errno,
which is set by system calls and some library functions in the
event of an error to indicate what went wrong.

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Fork() Funtion

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fork() creates a new process by duplicating the calling
process.
The new process is referred to as the child process.
The calling process ( who is calling fork() ) is referred to as the
parent process.
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The child process is an exact duplicate of the parent process.
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The child process and the parent process run in separate
memory spaces.

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Fork() Function (Contd..)
main() {
printf("Hi...\n");
fork(); //creates child process
printf("PID:%d, PPID:%d\n",getpid(), getppid());
/* this is executed twice */
while(1); }

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Fork() Function (Contd..)

main()
{
printf("Hi...\n");
fork();
fork();
fork();
printf("PID:%d, PPID:%d\n",getpid(), getppid());
while(1);
}

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Fork() Function (Contd..)

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Fork() Function (Contd..)

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On success, the PID of the child process is returned in the
parent, and 0 is returned in the child.

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On failure, -1 is returned in the parent, no child process is
created,and errno is set appropriately.

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