Hi friends! I'm learning UNIX and I have a small question. Working with Shell, i put the name of one executable (in c language) + one number and it says this:

$ gcc misterioso_4.c 
$ ./misterioso_4 6 

[4841] got: [4667],[2] 

On the top of my head I can think of two things.
1. Is your C program coded to handle an argument, such as 6?
2. And the compiled output of gcc is usually an object file "a.out". Unless you've renamed a.out to misterioso_4, I don't see how you mean to run the C program by typing ./misterioso_4. Please re-check.

I think 2, code acts on a child process.
The code is this:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#define BUFSIZE 256
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
pid_t childpid;
int fd[2], status, exit_code, a, b, x;
char buf[BUFSIZE];
unsigned strsize;
exit_code = EXIT_SUCCESS;
if (argc != 2)
{
printf(“Usage: %s digito_2\n”, argv[0]);
exit_code = EXIT_FAILURE;
}
else
{
if (pipe(fd) != 0)
{
perror(“Could not create the pipe\n”);
exit_code = EXIT_FAILURE;
}
else
{
switch (childpid = fork())
{
case -1:
perror(“Could not fork\n");
exit_code = EXIT_FAILURE;
break;
case 0:
if (dup2(fd[1], STDOUT_FILENO) < 0)
{
perror(“Child: fd duplication failed\n”);
exit_code = EXIT_FAILURE;
}
else
{
close(fd[0]);
close(fd[1]);
a = (int) getpid();
b = atoi(argv[1]);
sprintf(buf, “[%d],[%d]\n”, a, a % b);
strsize = strlen(buf) + 1;
if (write(STDOUT_FILENO, buf, strsize) != strsize)
{
perror(“Child: write to pipe failed\n”);
exit_code = EXIT_FAILURE;
}
} // else
break;
default:
if (dup2(fd[0], STDIN_FILENO) < 0)
{
perror(“Parent: fd duplication failed\n”);
exit_code = EXIT_FAILURE;
}
else
{
close(fd[0]); 
close(fd[1]); 
if (x = wait(&status) != childpid)
{
perror(“Parent: unexpected error\n”);
}
else
{
if (status == 0)
{
if (read(STDIN_FILENO, buf, BUFSIZE) <= 0)
{
perror(“Parent: pipe read failed\n”);
exit_code = EXIT_FAILURE;
}
else
{
printf(“[%d] got: %s\n”, (int) getpid(), buf);
}
}
else
{
perror(“Parent: child had problems\n”);
exit_code = EXIT_FAILURE;
}
}
} // end if default
} // end switch
} // end if pipe
} //end if argc
exit(exit_code);
} // end main

Sorry, 6 is the argument. Why apperars [num] got: [num], [num]?? Is the PID?

[num] got: [num], [num]

sprintf(buf, "[%d],[%d]\n", a, a % b);

printf("[%d] got: %s\n", (int) getpid(), buf);

Thanks!! Now, I stand it!