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/*
* =====================================================================================
*
* Filename: main.c
*
* Description: basic example of multi processing with fork()
*
* Version: 1.0
* Created: 06/03/2020 01:54:39 PM
* Revision: none
* Compiler: gcc
*
* Author: Leon Löchner
* Organization:
*
* =====================================================================================
*/
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#define NUM_PROCESS 3
void errExit(char* msg){
perror(msg);
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
int main(){
pid_t *pids = malloc(NUM_PROCESS * sizeof(pid_t));
for (int i = 0 ; i < NUM_PROCESS ; i++){
pids[i] = fork();
if (pids[i] < 0){
errExit("fork failed");
}
if (pids[i] == 0 ){
printf("child is running...\n");
sleep(10);
exit(0);
}
}
printf("parent waiting for children...\n");
int status, pid;
while ((pid = wait(&status)) > 0){
printf("child process %d terminated with status %d\n", pid, WEXITSTATUS(status));
}
}