Hello everyone, this is my first post.
I have a task to use a fork to create multiple processes and then use execlp to run another program to add 2 numbers.
The problem I am having is we are supposed to use the exit() call in the execlp to return the small integer. This is a bad way to communicate but it's what we are supposed to do for the sake of this program.
Here is my program
and here is the execlp process
My problem is NO MATTER WHAT I DO, the status is ALWAYS printing a 0, I do not know how to retrieve the sum that is returned from the worker process.
Please, I am so confused and have been up for 2 nights wondering about this
Thanks,
John
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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD
exec
EXEC(3) BSD Library Functions Manual EXEC(3)NAME
execl, execlp, execle, exect, execv, execvp -- execute a file
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h>
extern char **environ;
int
execl(const char *path, const char *arg, ...);
int
execlp(const char *file, const char *arg, ...);
int
execle(const char *path, const char *arg, ..., char *const envp[]);
int
exect(const char *path, char *const argv[], char *const envp[]);
int
execv(const char *path, char *const argv[]);
int
execvp(const char *file, char *const argv[]);
DESCRIPTION
The exec family of functions replaces the current process image with a new process image. The functions described in this manual page are
front-ends for the function execve(2). (See the manual page for execve(2) for detailed information about the replacement of the current
process. The script(7) manual page provides detailed information about the execution of interpreter scripts.)
The initial argument for these functions is the pathname of a file which is to be executed.
The const char *arg and subsequent ellipses in the execl(), execlp(), and execle() functions can be thought of as arg0, arg1, ..., argn.
Together they describe a list of one or more pointers to null-terminated strings that represent the argument list available to the executed
program. The first argument, by convention, should point to the file name associated with the file being executed. The list of arguments
must be terminated by a NULL pointer.
The exect(), execv(), and execvp() functions provide an array of pointers to null-terminated strings that represent the argument list avail-
able to the new program. The first argument, by convention, should point to the file name associated with the file being executed. The
array of pointers must be terminated by a NULL pointer.
The execle() and exect() functions also specify the environment of the executed process by following the NULL pointer that terminates the
list of arguments in the parameter list or the pointer to the argv array with an additional parameter. This additional parameter is an array
of pointers to null-terminated strings and must be terminated by a NULL pointer. The other functions take the environment for the new
process image from the external variable environ in the current process.
Some of these functions have special semantics.
The functions execlp() and execvp() will duplicate the actions of the shell in searching for an executable file if the specified file name
does not contain a slash ``/'' character. The search path is the path specified in the environment by the PATH variable. If this variable
isn't specified, _PATH_DEFPATH from <paths.h> is used instead, its value being: /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/pkg/bin:/usr/local/bin. In addition, cer-
tain errors are treated specially.
If permission is denied for a file (the attempted execve(2) returned EACCES), these functions will continue searching the rest of the search
path. If no other file is found, however, they will return with the global variable errno set to EACCES.
If the header of a file isn't recognized (the attempted execve(2) returned ENOEXEC), these functions will execute the shell with the path of
the file as its first argument. (If this attempt fails, no further searching is done.)
If the file is currently busy (the attempted execve(2) returned ETXTBUSY), these functions will sleep for several seconds, periodically re-
attempting to execute the file.
The function exect() executes a file with the program tracing facilities enabled (see ptrace(2)).
RETURN VALUES
If any of the exec functions returns, an error will have occurred. The return value is -1, and the global variable errno will be set to
indicate the error.
FILES
/bin/sh The shell.
ERRORS
execl(), execle(), execlp() and execvp() may fail and set errno for any of the errors specified for the library functions execve(2) and
malloc(3).
exect() and execv() may fail and set errno for any of the errors specified for the library function execve(2).
SEE ALSO sh(1), execve(2), fork(2), ptrace(2), environ(7), script(7)COMPATIBILITY
Historically, the default path for the execlp() and execvp() functions was ``:/bin:/usr/bin''. This was changed to improve security and be-
haviour.
The behavior of execlp() and execvp() when errors occur while attempting to execute the file is historic practice, but has not traditionally
been documented and is not specified by the POSIX standard.
Traditionally, the functions execlp() and execvp() ignored all errors except for the ones described above and ENOMEM and E2BIG, upon which
they returned. They now return if any error other than the ones described above occurs.
STANDARDS
execl(), execv(), execle(), execlp() and execvp() conform to ISO/IEC 9945-1:1990 (``POSIX.1'').
BSD May 6, 2005 BSD