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Process System Calls

The document discusses system calls fork, wait, and exec. Fork duplicates a process and returns 0 in the child and the child's PID in the parent. Wait makes the parent wait for the child to finish. Exec replaces the current process with a new program.

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Process System Calls

The document discusses system calls fork, wait, and exec. Fork duplicates a process and returns 0 in the child and the child's PID in the parent. Wait makes the parent wait for the child to finish. Exec replaces the current process with a new program.

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Process System Calls

fork – wait – exec


fork
• used to duplicate a process
Syntax
• pid_t fork(void);
Example
int main() {
pid_t p;
p=fork();
If(p==0){
printf(“Child process\n");}
else{
printf(“Parent process);}
}
What fork() returns
• On failure
• -1
• On success
• ‘0’ in the child process
• Process-id of the child in the parent process.
wait()
• Makes the parent wait for the child to finish
Syntax
• pid_t wait(int *wstatus);
Important
• wait() can be used to make the parent wait for the child to
terminate(finish) but not the other way around.
For More
• https://dextutor.com/fork-system-call/

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