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The document is a lab manual for an Operating System course at Asansol Engineering College, focusing on process creation and types using the fork system call. It includes C programs demonstrating the creation of both a child process and an orphan process, along with their expected outputs. Key concepts such as process hierarchy and the behavior of orphan processes are also discussed.

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The document is a lab manual for an Operating System course at Asansol Engineering College, focusing on process creation and types using the fork system call. It includes C programs demonstrating the creation of both a child process and an orphan process, along with their expected outputs. Key concepts such as process hierarchy and the behavior of orphan processes are also discussed.

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ASANSOL ENGINEERING COLLEGE

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Course Name: Operating Experiment No. 6


System Lab

Course Code : PCC-CS592 Branch: CSE Semester: 5

AIM: Knowledge on process creation and types.

Processes

A collection of logical control flows called processes (task or jobs).In other word a process is a program
in execution.
Each process is an instance of a running program.

Linux process hierarchy

Fork():

int fork(void)
• creates a new process (child process) that is identical to the calling process (parent
process)
• returns 0 to the child process
• returns child‘s pid to the parent process
• Returns negetive value if t fails to create process.

Operating System Lab Manual PCC-CS 592 Page 1


ASANSOL ENGINEERING COLLEGE
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Problem: Write a c program to create a process using fork system call.
Program:

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

int main() {
int pid;
// Create a new process
pid = fork();
if (pid < 0) {
// Error occurred
fprintf(stderr, "fork() failed\n");
exit(1);
}
// Child process
else if (pid == 0) {
printf("Child process ID: %d\n", getpid());
printf("Parent process ID: %d\n", getppid());
printf("This is the child process\n");
sleep(2);
printf("Child process exiting\n");
exit(0);
}
// Parent process
else {
printf("Parent process ID: %d\n", getpid());
printf("Child process ID: %d\n", pid);
printf("This is the parent process\n");
wait(NULL);
printf("Parent process exiting\n");
exit(0);
}
return 0;
}

Output:

Child process ID: 479


Parent process ID: 478
This is the child process
Child process exiting
Parent process ID: 478
Child process ID: 479
This is the parent process
Parent process exiting

Operating System Lab Manual PCC-CS 592 Page 2


ASANSOL ENGINEERING COLLEGE
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Orphan Processes
Orphan processes are those processes that are still running even though their parent process has
terminated or finished. A process can be orphaned intentionally or unintentionally.

Problem: Write a c program to create an orphan process.


Program:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
int main() {
pid_t pid;
// Create a new process
pid = fork();
if (pid < 0) {
// Error occurred
fprintf(stderr, "fork() failed\n");
exit(1);
}
// Child process (orphan process)
else if (pid == 0) {
printf("Child process ID: %d\n", getpid());
printf("Parent process ID: %d\n", getppid());
sleep(5); // Sleep for 5 seconds
printf("Orphan process exiting\n");
exit(0);
}
// Parent process
else {
printf("Parent process ID: %d\n", getpid());
printf("Child process ID: %d\n", pid);
printf("Parent process exiting immediately\n");
exit(0); // Parent exits immediately
}
return 0;
}

Output:

Parent process ID: 1234


Child process ID: 1235
Parent process exiting immediately
Child process ID: 1235
Parent process ID: 1 (init process)
Orphan process exiting

Operating System Lab Manual PCC-CS 592 Page 3

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