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18CS2102R

Operating Systems
Session 5
Process API

© 2016 KL University – The contents of this presentation are an intellectual and copyrighted property of KL University. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 1
The fork() System Call
• Create a new process
• The newly-created process has its own copy of the address space, registers,
and PC.
p1.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[]){


printf("hello world (pid:%d)\n", (int) getpid());
int rc = fork();
if (rc < 0) { // fork failed; exit
fprintf(stderr, "fork failed\n");
exit(1);
} else if (rc == 0) { // child (new process)
printf("hello, I am child (pid:%d)\n", (int) getpid());
} else { // parent goes down this path (main)
printf("hello, I am parent of %d (pid:%d)\n",
rc, (int) getpid());
}
return 0;
}
2
Calling fork() example (Cont.)
Result (Not deterministic)
prompt> ./p1
hello world (pid:29146)
hello, I am parent of 29147 (pid:29146)
hello, I am child (pid:29147)
prompt>
or
prompt> ./p1
hello world (pid:29146)
hello, I am child (pid:29147)
hello, I am parent of 29147 (pid:29146)
prompt>

3
The wait() System Call
• This system call won’t return until the child has run and exited.
p2.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[]){


printf("hello world (pid:%d)\n", (int) getpid());
int rc = fork();
if (rc < 0) { // fork failed; exit
fprintf(stderr, "fork failed\n");
exit(1);
} else if (rc == 0) { // child (new process)
printf("hello, I am child (pid:%d)\n", (int) getpid());
} else { // parent goes down this path (main)
int wc = wait(NULL);
printf("hello, I am parent of %d (wc:%d) (pid:%d)\n",
rc, wc, (int) getpid());
}
return 0;
}

4
The wait() System Call (Cont.)
Result (Deterministic)
prompt> ./p2
hello world (pid:29266)
hello, I am child (pid:29267)
hello, I am parent of 29267 (wc:29267) (pid:29266)
prompt>

5
The exec() System Call
• Run a program that is different from the calling program
p3.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[]){


printf("hello world (pid:%d)\n", (int) getpid());
int rc = fork();
if (rc < 0) { // fork failed; exit
fprintf(stderr, "fork failed\n");
exit(1);
} else if (rc == 0) { // child (new process)
printf("hello, I am child (pid:%d)\n", (int) getpid());
char *myargs[3];
myargs[0] = strdup("wc"); // program: "wc" (word count)
myargs[1] = strdup("p3.c"); // argument: file to count
myargs[2] = NULL; // marks end of array
…

6
The exec() System Call (Cont.)
p3.c (Cont.)
…
execvp(myargs[0], myargs); // runs word count
printf("this shouldn’t print out");
} else { // parent goes down this path (main)
int wc = wait(NULL);
printf("hello, I am parent of %d (wc:%d) (pid:%d)\n",
rc, wc, (int) getpid());
}
return 0;
}

Result
prompt> ./p3
hello world (pid:29383)
hello, I am child (pid:29384)
29 107 1030 p3.c
hello, I am parent of 29384 (wc:29384) (pid:29383)
prompt>

7
All of the above with redirection
p4.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>

int
main(int argc, char *argv[]){
int rc = fork();
if (rc < 0) { // fork failed; exit
fprintf(stderr, "fork failed\n");
exit(1);
} else if (rc == 0) { // child: redirect standard output to a file
close(STDOUT_FILENO);
open("./p4.output", O_CREAT|O_WRONLY|O_TRUNC, S_IRWXU);
…

8
All of the above with redirection
(Cont.)
p4.c
…
// now exec "wc"...
char *myargs[3];
myargs[0] = strdup("wc"); // program: "wc" (word count)
myargs[1] = strdup("p4.c"); // argument: file to count
myargs[2] = NULL; // marks end of array
execvp(myargs[0], myargs); // runs word count
} else { // parent goes down this path (main)
int wc = wait(NULL);
}
return 0;
}

Result
prompt> ./p4
prompt> cat p4.output
32 109 846 p4.c
prompt>

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