* In case the child process his a error, this will exiting without sending SIGALRM to parent, which will make parent to keep on printing the "#", even if child has died, so parent will keep on printing the #.
* #'s are relative to the size of the file you are creating. (they should).not to the time. For a small sized file, their will be 1-2 hashes. but for big, their can be 20-30 hashes. This doesn't tells the user real progress.
May be you can try without using fork.
-Dheeraj
Thanks for your kind reply.
I really missed the time factor . Can you give some code to implement the same. A brief pseudo code will suffice. Also why many are telling me not to use fork(in other forums too.) whereas its the default multitasking facility in *nix system.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
Since the #'s are probably( ) intended for human reading and not as output for another process, you should print them to standard error instead of standard output to kill two birds with one stone. stderr is unbuffered by convention.
Code:
// always unbuffered, fflush not needed
fputc('#', stderr);
Thanks to you also ! Never knew that fact about stderr
Hi,
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LEARN ABOUT MINIX
uuidd
UUIDD(8) System Administration UUIDD(8)NAME
uuidd - UUID generation daemon
SYNOPSIS
uuidd [options]
DESCRIPTION
The uuidd daemon is used by the UUID library to generate universally unique identifiers (UUIDs), especially time-based UUIDs, in a secure
and guaranteed-unique fashion, even in the face of large numbers of threads running on different CPUs trying to grab UUIDs.
OPTIONS -d, --debug
Run uuidd in debugging mode. This prevents uuidd from running as a daemon.
-F, --no-fork
Do not daemonize using a double-fork.
-k, --kill
If currently a uuidd daemon is running, kill it.
-n, --uuids number
When issuing a test request to a running uuidd, request a bulk response of number UUIDs.
-P, --no-pid
Do not create a pid file.
-p, --pid path
Specify the pathname where the pid file should be written. By default, the pid file is written to /run/uuidd/uuidd.pid.
-q, --quiet
Suppress some failure messages.
-r, --random
Test uuidd by trying to connect to a running uuidd daemon and request it to return a random-based UUID.
-S, --socket-activation
Do not create a socket but instead expect it to be provided by the calling process. This implies --no-fork and --no-pid. This
option is intended to be used only with systemd(1). It needs to be enabled with a configure option.
-s, --socket path
Make uuidd use this pathname for the unix-domain socket. By default, the pathname used is /run/uuidd/request. This option is pri-
marily for debugging purposes, since the pathname is hard-coded in the libuuid library.
-T, --timeout number
Make uuidd exit after number seconds of inactivity.
-t, --time
Test uuidd by trying to connect to a running uuidd daemon and request it to return a time-based UUID.
-V, --version
Output version information and exit.
-h, --help
Display help screen and exit.
EXAMPLE
Start up a daemon, print 42 random keys, and then stop the daemon:
uuidd -p /tmp/uuidd.pid -s /tmp/uuidd.socket
uuidd -d -r -n 42 -s /tmp/uuidd.socket
uuidd -d -k -s /tmp/uuidd.socket
AUTHOR
The uuidd daemon was written by Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>.
SEE ALSO uuid(3), uuidgen(1)AVAILABILITY
The uuidd daemon is part of the util-linux package and is available from the Linux Kernel Archive <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils
/util-linux/>.
util-linux July 2014 UUIDD(8)
09-25-2009
) whereas its the default multitasking facility in *nix system. 
) intended for human reading and not as output for another process, you should print them to standard error instead of standard output to kill two birds with one stone. stderr is unbuffered by convention.