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Top Forums Programming problem implementing fork Post 302356176 by dheerajsuthar on Thursday 24th of September 2009 07:14:12 PM
Old 09-24-2009
problem implementing fork
Hi,
I was honing my linux programming skill when this nuisance started bugging me. I wanted to create an empty file creator program. While creating a large file it must print # for progress bar. But the output shows it happening reverse way. ie. first it copies file and shows the progress bar(although the bar is filled completely thus showing that parent process is working correctly). Kindly help me in putting these progress # simultaneously to file copying. Thanks in advance.
Code:
Code:
#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>

static int status = 0;
void ding()
{
status =1;
}
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
int rc=0,fd,i,tem=0;
char c=' ';
int size= atoi(argv[1])*1024;
char *add=argv[2];

pid_t pid;
pid = fork();
switch(pid){
case -1:
perror("Error creating fork\n");
exit(1);

case 0:
/*child process*/
{
fd = open(add,O_WRONLY|O_CREAT,0666);
if (fd<0)
{
printf("Error creating file\n");
exit(1);
}
for(i=1;i<=size;i++)
{
tem = write(fd, &c, 1);
rc += tem;
}
printf("rc: %d\n",rc);
if(rc!=size)
perror("Error allocating size.\n");
else
kill(getppid(),SIGALRM);

close(fd);
exit(0);
}
/*child process ends*/
}
/*parent process*/
(void) signal(SIGALRM,ding);
while(1){
printf("#");
sleep(1);
if(status)
{
printf("\ndone.\n");
exit(1);
}
}
}

Output:
Code:
dheeraj@dheeraj-machine:~/linux_pro$ ./a.out 1000 temp

hangs for some time. then:
Code:
rc: 1024000
###########################
done.

Clearly these # should have been printed along with file copy process. But don't know why its not.
 

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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD

vfork

VFORK(2)						      BSD System Calls Manual							  VFORK(2)

NAME

     vfork -- spawn new process in a virtual memory efficient way

LIBRARY

     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS

     #include <unistd.h>

     pid_t
     vfork(void);

DESCRIPTION

     The vfork system call creates a new process that does not have a new virtual address space, but rather shares address space with the parent,
     thus avoiding potentially expensive copy-on-write operations normally associated with creating a new process.  It is useful when the purpose
     of fork(2) would have been to create a new system context for an execve(2).  The vfork system call differs from fork(2) in that the child
     borrows the parent's memory and thread of control until a call to execve(2) or an exit (either by a call to _exit(2) or abnormally).  The
     parent process is suspended while the child is using its resources.

     The vfork system call returns 0 in the child's context and (later) the pid of the child in the parent's context.

     The vfork system call can normally be used just like fork(2).  It does not work, however, to return while running in the childs context from
     the procedure that called vfork() since the eventual return from vfork() would then return to a no longer existent stack frame.  Be careful,
     also, to call _exit(2) rather than exit(3) if you can't execve(2), since exit(3) will flush and close standard I/O channels, and thereby mess
     up the standard I/O data structures in the parent process.  (Even with fork(2) it is wrong to call exit(3) since buffered data would then be
     flushed twice.)

RETURN VALUES

     Same as for fork(2).

ERRORS

     Same as for fork(2).

SEE ALSO

     execve(2), fork(2), sigaction(2), wait(2)

HISTORY

     The vfork() function call appeared in 3.0BSD.  In 4.4BSD, the semantics were changed to only suspend the parent.  The original semantics were
     reintroduced in NetBSD 1.4.

BUGS

     Users should not depend on the memory sharing semantics of vfork() as other ways of speeding up the fork process may be developed in the
     future.

     To avoid a possible deadlock situation, processes that are children in the middle of a vfork() are never sent SIGTTOU or SIGTTIN signals;
     rather, output or ioctl(2) calls are allowed and input attempts result in an end-of-file indication.

BSD
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