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Orphan Process

Orphan Process =============== If in a process, the parent process is terminated before the child process, the child process become orphan – It takes the lowest possible process as its parent – And its PPID is changed to the PID … Continue reading

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Zombie or Defunct Process

Zombie or Defunct Process ========================== If a child proces tries to teminate,its association with parent remains until the parent terminates normally or calls wait. – The child process entry in process table is therfore not freed up immediately. – Althougth … Continue reading

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waiting for a process

Waiting For a Process ===================== – Sometime we would like to find out when a child process has finished. – It is needed for parent process to wait until the child finishes before continuing by calling wait. – It has … Continue reading

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Process Duplication using fork

Process Duplication using system call fork ============================== – A new process is created using fork(). – fork() is a system call. – fork duplicates the current process. – It creates a new entry in the process table with many of … Continue reading

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Client,server and process communication project using signals

Welcome to the Project!! n1=12, n2=23 Performing addition action In Server:Sum=35 In CLIENT: Result=35 n1=20, n2=8 Performing Subtraction action In Server:Sub=12 In CLIENT2: Result=12 n1=5, n2=8 Performing Multiplication action In Server:Mul=40 In CLIENT3: Result=40 RCS file: RCS/server.c,v Working file: server.c … Continue reading

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Completed creating a new process using fork, how orphan process works, wait by parent till child exit

RCS file: fork.c,v Working file: fork.c head: 1.4 branch: locks: strict access list: symbolic names: keyword substitution: kv total revisions: 4;    selected revisions: 4 description: program to create a duplicate process using fork —————————- revision 1.4 date: 2014/09/18 17:37:44;  author: … Continue reading

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