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Calling fork multiple times (part 2) (With a practical example)

#include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include <time.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/wait.h> #define PROCESS_NUM 10 int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { int pids[PROCESS_NUM]; int pipes[PROCESS_NUM + 1][2]; int i; for (i = 0; i < PROCESS_NUM + 1; i++) { if (pipe(pipes[i]) == -1) { printf("Error with creating pipe\n"); return 1; } } for (i = 0; i < PROCESS_NUM; i++) { pids[i] = fork(); if (pids[i] == -1) { printf("Error with creating process\n"); return 2; } if (pids[i] == 0) { // Child process int j; for (j = 0; j < PROCESS_NUM + 1; j++) { if (i != j) { close(pipes[j][0]); } if (i + 1 != j) { close(pipes[j][1]); } } int x; if (read(pipes[i][0], &x, sizeof(int)) == -1) { printf("Error at reading\n"); return 3; } printf("(%d) Got %d\n", i, x); x++; if (write(pipes[i + 1][1], &x, sizeof(int)) == -1) { printf("Error at writing\n"); return 4; } printf("(%d) Sent %d\n", i, x); close(pipes[i][0]); close(pipes[i + 1][1]); return 0; } } // Main process int j; for (j = 0; j < PROCESS_NUM + 1; j++) { if (j != PROCESS_NUM) { close(pipes[j][0]); } if (j != 0) { close(pipes[j][1]); } } int y = 5; printf("Main process sent %d\n", y); if (write(pipes[0][1], &y, sizeof(int)) == -1) { printf("Error at writing\n"); return 4; } if (read(pipes[PROCESS_NUM][0], &y, sizeof(int)) == -1) { printf("Error at reading\n"); return 3; } printf("The final result is %d\n", y); close(pipes[0][1]); close(pipes[PROCESS_NUM][0]); for (i = 0; i < PROCESS_NUM; i++) { wait(NULL); } return 0; }
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