Hi All,
I facing a problem in handling signals between parent process communication. I am trying to send a signal(SIGINT) from child to parent. I am using kill function to do so and I am trying to read the signal using sigaction(). But the program is ending abruptly and I am not able to figure out why! Could anyone of you please help me?
The code is as follows :
Hi everybody,
I'm trying to understand how a parent and child processes interact.
This function( below) basically measures the fork time from the perspective of the parent only.
what i would like to know is how to measure the time from the perspective of parent and child (ie: inserting... (0 Replies)
I want to catch SIGCHLD signal in parent process. I can't use wait() system call to catch SIGCHLD according to project requirment.
Operating system linux 3.1
can any one have a solution for this.
Thanking you,
ranjan (2 Replies)
i am creating children processes using fork system call
every child i create goes to sleep for random time.
when child stops running how can i catch his signal and turminate the child (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I have two ksh script. 1st script calls the 2nd script and the second script calls an 'C' program.
I want 1st script to wait until the 'C' program completes.
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More detail.
ScriptA (bash), ScriptB (ksh), ScriptC (bash)
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I'm trying to do a program that makes activate an signal (SINGALARM) when the next child of a son appears but this not works.
I have to caught the next child o the other (pid), to send a singnal which inform a menssage.
It's anything worng in the code?
thanks.
the code:
#include... (2 Replies)
Hello. I want to make a child do some stuff,wait,then the parent does some stuff and then child does some stuff and waits again.I have made the following but it does not work.Can anybody help me?
pid1 = fork();
if (pid1 == -1)
{
perror("Can't create child\n");
... (18 Replies)
Hi, i want that the parent process start before the child, this code doesn't work,
if the child start before the parent it wait for signal, then the father send the signal SIGALRM and the child catch it and call printf;
else the father call printf and send the signal to the child that call its... (1 Reply)
Hello, everyone.
Here's a program:
pid_t pid = fork();
if (0 == pid) // child process
{
execvp ...;
}
I send a signal (such as SIGINT) to the parent process, the child process receive the signal as well as the parent process.
However I don't want to child process to receive the... (7 Replies)
Hi everyone
i am very new to linux , working on bash shell.
I am trying to solve the given problem
1. Create a process and then create children using fork
2. Check the Status of the application for successful running.
3. Kill all the process(threads) except parent and first child... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: vizz_k
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
vfork
vfork(2) System Calls vfork(2)NAME
vfork - spawn new process in a virtual memory efficient way
SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h>
pid_t vfork(void);
DESCRIPTION
The vfork() function creates a new process without fully copying the address space of the old process. This function is useful in instances
where the purpose of a fork(2) operation is to create a new system context for an execve() operation (see exec(2)).
Unlike with the fork() function, the child process borrows the parent's memory and thread of control until a call to execve() or an exit
(either abnormally or by a call to _exit() (see exit(2)). Any modification made during this time to any part of memory in the child process
is reflected in the parent process on return from vfork(). The parent process is suspended while the child is using its resources.
In a multithreaded application, vfork() borrows only the thread of control that called vfork() in the parent; that is, the child contains
only one thread. The use of vfork() in multithreaded applications, however, is unsafe due to race conditons that can cause the child
process to become deadlocked and consequently block both the child and parent process from execution indefinitely.
The vfork() function can normally be used the same way as fork(). The procedure that called vfork(), however, should not return while run-
ning in the child's context, since the eventual return from vfork() in the parent would be to a stack frame that no longer exists. The
_exit() function should be used in favor of exit(3C) if unable to perform an execve() operation, since exit() will invoke all functions
registered by atexit(3C) and will flush and close standard I/O channels, thereby corrupting the parent process's standard I/O data struc-
tures. Care must be taken in the child process not to modify any global or local data that affects the behavior of the parent process on
return from vfork(), unless such an effect is intentional.
The vfork() function is deprecated. Its sole legitimate use as a prelude to an immediate call to a function from the exec family can be
achieved safely by posix_spawn(3C) or posix_spawnp(3C).
RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, vfork() returns 0 to the child process and returns the process ID of the child process to the parent process.
Otherwise, -1 is returned to the parent process, no child process is created, and errno is set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
The vfork() function will fail if:
EAGAIN The system-imposed limit on the total number of processes under execution (either system-quality or by a single user) would
be exceeded. This limit is determined when the system is generated.
ENOMEM There is insufficient swap space for the new process.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Obsolete |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|MT-Level |Unsafe |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO exec(2), exit(2), fork(2), ioctl(2), atexit(3C), exit(3C), posix_spawn(3C), posix_spawnp(3C), signal.h(3HEAD), wait(3C), attributes(5),
standards(5)NOTES
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 ioctls are allowed and input attempts result in an EOF indication.
To forstall parent memory corruption due to race conditions with signal handling, vfork() treats signal handlers in the child process in
the same manner as the exec(2) functions: signals set to be caught by the parent process are set to the default action (SIG_DFL) in the
child process (see signal.h(3HEAD)). Any attempt to set a signal handler in the child before execve() to anything other than SIG_DFL or
SIG_IGN is disallowed and results in setting the handler to SIG_DFL.
On some systems, the implementation of vfork() causes the parent to inherit register values from the child. This can create problems for
certain optimizing compilers if <unistd.h> is not included in the source calling vfork().
SunOS 5.10 8 Nov 2004 vfork(2)