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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Doubt with fork() system call Post 302577620 by badsha6642 on Tuesday 29th of November 2011 01:13:32 PM
Old 11-29-2011
Doubt with fork() system call

Hi
I wrote a simple fork program to illustrate the fork() system cal. here it is
Code:
#include<stdio.h>
#include<sys/stat.h>
#include<sys/types.h>
main()
{
    int flag;
    flag=fork();
    if(flag==0)
    {
        printf("Child \n");    
        printf("Process id= %d\n",getpid());
        printf("Parent id= %d\n",getppid());
    }
    if(flag==-1)
        printf("Error!!!");
    else
    {
        printf("Parent\n");
        printf("Process id= %d\n",getpid());
        printf("Parent id= %d\n",getppid());
        printf("value of flag=%d\n",flag);
    }
}

i got the following output
Code:
Parent
Process id= 2332
Parent id= 1855
value of flag=2333
Child 
Process id= 2333
Parent id= 1
Parent
Process id= 2333
Parent id= 1
value of flag=0

i understood the first part i.e parent part,but how the parent id of child becomes 1?? and again how the parent process is called??

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Last edited by vbe; 11-29-2011 at 02:19 PM..
 

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PTHREAD_ATFORK(3)					     Library Functions Manual						 PTHREAD_ATFORK(3)

NAME
pthread_atfork - register handlers to be called at fork(2) time SYNOPSIS
#include <pthread.h> int pthread_atfork(void (*prepare)(void), void (*parent)(void), void (*child)(void)); DESCRIPTION
pthread_atfork registers handler functions to be called just before and just after a new process is created with fork(2). The prepare han- dler will be called from the parent process, just before the new process is created. The parent handler will be called from the parent process, just before fork(2) returns. The child handler will be called from the child process, just before fork(2) returns. One or several of the three handlers prepare, parent and child can be given as NULL, meaning that no handler needs to be called at the cor- responding point. pthread_atfork can be called several times to install several sets of handlers. At fork(2) time, the prepare handlers are called in LIFO order (last added with pthread_atfork, first called before fork), while the parent and child handlers are called in FIFO order (first added, first called). To understand the purpose of pthread_atfork, recall that fork(2) duplicates the whole memory space, including mutexes in their current locking state, but only the calling thread: other threads are not running in the child process. The mutexes are not usable after the fork and must be initialized with pthread_mutex_init in the child process. This is a limitation of the current implementation and might or might not be present in future versions. RETURN VALUE
pthread_atfork returns 0 on success and a non-zero error code on error. ERRORS
ENOMEM insufficient memory available to register the handlers. AUTHOR
Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr> SEE ALSO
fork(2), pthread_mutex_lock(3), pthread_mutex_unlock(3). LinuxThreads PTHREAD_ATFORK(3)
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