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CSL373/CS333N: Assignment 1 on Process control and IPC
Background reading
- Carefully read the following man pages: signal, ualarm,umask, sigprocmask,
gettimeofday, wait, exec, fork, pipe,open, ipc, clone, msgctcl, msgsnd,
msgrcf,rand, srand48. Unix Network Programming by W. Richard
Stevens is an excellent source for studying this stuff. You
should also look at
The Linux Programmer's Guide
- Read from the OS books the sections that deal with: CPU scheduling,
processes, threads, IPC.
- Read the linux pthreads tutorial. Do not download the package - pthreads is built in to
glibc.
Process Applications
- Expand the hare and turtle process descriptions
and implement IPC solutions by
defining cooperating processes.
- First use fork() and execve() to create the processes and develop
complete applications using the following LINUX IPC (message passing)
mechanisms separately: (i) pipes (ii) FIFO files and (iii) message queues.
- Develop the same applications using Linux pthreads (shared memory).
Note:
- To be done in groups of two.
- Exchange your tests with others.
- The last date of submission of solutions using pipes, FIFOs and
message Qs is Jan 20 (strict).
Click here to submit.
The last date for the pthreads solution will be announced later.
Subhashis Banerjee / Dept. Computer Science and Engineering / IIT Delhi /
Hauz Khas/ New Delhi 110016 / suban@cse.iitd.ernet.in
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