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yes and no. It was an assignment but the deadline has already passed. I still want to finish it tho so i can know what to do and understand dup2 still, but after some messing with it I think my...

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <stdint.h>

#define LINE_MAX ...

no I get no errors, the code runs fine and does what I want. It just doesnt exit the child process.

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Im sure it has something to do with the wait() call, but everything ive tried either leaves me with a zombie or with the exec executing indefinitely.

switch(pid = fork())
{
case -1:perror("fork...

oh ok thanks alot, I think i understand now . I have a project coming up where ill need to use some pipes and I this really fills in some of my blanks.

thanks again.

yes I actually wanted processes A, B, and C communicating with each other, but I only wanted to pipe a message from a->b->c. I didnt realize I had created 4 processes.
Is there anyway to just...

yea I did that because i created two forks, but i wanted both to enter the switch statement.

sorry im very new to this but i am supposed to create 3 processes A,B, and C and have a direct link from a to b, b to c, and c to a.

here is my code. It does work, however if you look at what I...