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bazylevnik0
bazylevnik0

Reputation: 100

Two parallel program execv with fork with returning to code

I'm writing pseudo-shell and now write parallel-command functionality. In this question ( Differences between fork and exec ) I'm found how I can call execv with returning to my code execution. But I don't understand how I can call two parallel programms with continue after. How I see it:

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

int main() 
{
    char *argv_for_program_1[] = {"ls" , NULL};
    int pid_1 = fork();
    if (pid_1 == 0)
    {     
        execv("/usr/bin/ls" , argv_for_program_1); //print ls
    }
    char *argv_for_program_2[] = {"pwd" , NULL};
    int pid_2 = fork();
    if (pid_2 == 0)
    {     
        execv("/usr/bin/pwd" , argv_for_program_2); //print pwd
    }
    wait(0);
    printf("continue");  //print continue
}

But this code run ls -> continue -> pwd. What should I change?

Upvotes: -1

Views: 103

Answers (2)

bazylevnik0
bazylevnik0

Reputation: 100

This code should fix it( two wait) :

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

int main() 
{
    char *argv_for_program_1[] = {"ls" , NULL};
    int pid_1 = fork();
    if (pid_1 == 0)
    {     
        execv("/usr/bin/ls" , argv_for_program_1); //print ls
    }
    char *argv_for_program_2[] = {"pwd" , NULL};
    int pid_2 = fork();
    if (pid_2 == 0)
    {     
        execv("/usr/bin/pwd" , argv_for_program_2); //print pwd
    }
    wait(0);
    wait(0); //!!!
    printf("continue");  //print continue
}

Upvotes: 0

l_-A-_l
l_-A-_l

Reputation: 142

Here is your problem with strtok from man : " The strtok() function breaks a string into a sequence of zero or more nonempty tokens. On the first call to strtok(), the string to be parsed should be specified in str. In each sub‐ sequent call that should parse the same string, str must be NULL."

this code should fix it :

...
          if ( found_parallel ) {            /// !!! this place
            printf("%s\n","parallel");
            char *name_of_program_1;
            name_of_program_1 = strtok(line, separator);
            char *temp;
            temp = strtok(NULL, separator);
            char *name_of_program_2;
            name_of_program_2 = strtok(NULL, separator);

            char path_1[100] = "/usr/bin/";
            strcat(path_1, name_of_program_1);
            char path_2[100] = "/usr/bin/";
            strcat(path_2, name_of_program_2);
...

Upvotes: 1

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