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It is actually a Operating system course and all the major topics mentioned we have studied; on an academic level I understand it, however implementation is something different. In regards to...

That cleared it up.
Thank you for the info and example,
FI

Thank you for the feedback,will take it into consideration.
"Because the child is "only reading" the data the semaphore is potentially unneeded, but theoretically a "partial write" by the server...

Thank you all for the help, decided to go with a shared memory solution:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/ipc.h>
#include <sys/shm.h>
#include <fcntl.h>

main(int argc,...

Thank you for the info and all your help.
FG

My mistake, I forgot to mention the most important thing, the scheme has to change, it cannot be a master slave relationship. So once the children are created the parent either waits or exits...

Thank you for the sample code, I was discussing pipes with one of my colleagues and it is seems that when a read is being performed on a pipe the OS performs a blocking operation or a blocking...

When you write a value to a pipe, when is the value removed? Also does anyone have same code of creating pipes and assigning them to child processes?
Thanks,
FG

Thank you for all your help, I will be coding this weekend.

Thank you for all your suggestions and resources, just some insight into the problem I am trying to solve, I have to create n process and print the process number to a file m times; this is a sample:...

I gave it some thought, and based on your reply I would like to do the following: "the parent could create a pipe with each of them and send a signal whenever you've just sent a command down the...

Hello all, I am trying to create n child processes and control them from a parent process; say make child 3 print its pid and then child 5 do the same and some other stuff. Is there a way to...