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    The document describes an experiment to create a child process from a parent process using the fork() system call in C. It provides the theory behind fork(), getpid(), and getppid() system calls. The algorithm has the main process use fork() to create a child process, with the child process using getpid() to get its ID and the parent using getppid() to get the child's ID. Both print out values from 1 to 10, with the child printing even numbers and parent printing odd numbers.

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    The document describes an experiment to create a child process from a parent process using the fork() system call in C. It provides the theory behind fork(), getpid(), and getppid() system calls. The algorithm has the main process use fork() to create a child process, with the child process using getpid() to get its ID and the parent using getppid() to get the child's ID. Both print out values from 1 to 10, with the child printing even numbers and parent printing odd numbers.

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    The document describes an experiment to create a child process from a parent process using the fork() system call in C. It provides the theory behind fork(), getpid(), and getppid() system calls. The algorithm has the main process use fork() to create a child process, with the child process using getpid() to get its ID and the parent using getppid() to get the child's ID. Both print out values from 1 to 10, with the child printing even numbers and parent printing odd numbers.

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    EXPERIMENT NO.

    AIM: Write a C program to create child process in linux using the fork system call. From
    child process obtain process ID of both child and parent by using getpid and getppid system
    call.

    THEORY:

    The fork() System call:


     The purpose of fork() is to create a new process, which becomes the child process of
    the caller.
     After a new child process is created, both processes will execute the next instruction
    following the fork() system call.
     Therefore, to distinguish the parent from the child. It takes no arguments and returns
    a process ID.
     Different values returned by fork().
     A negative value: The creation of a child process was unsuccessful.
     A zero : To the newly created child process.
     A positive value: The process ID of the child process, to the parent.
    The returned process ID is of type pid_t defined in sys/types.h. Normally, the
    process ID is an integer. Moreover, a process can use function getpid() to
    retrieve the process ID assigned to this process.

    getpid() :
     Returns the process ID of the calling process. This is often used by routines that
    generate unique temporary filenames.
     Syntax: pid_t getpid(void);
     Return type: Returns the process ID of the current process. It never throws any error
    therefore is always successful.

    getppid():
     Returns the process ID of the parent of the calling process. If the calling process was
    created by the fork() function and the parent process still exists at the time of the
    getppid function call, this function returns the process ID of the parent process.
    Otherwise, this function returns a value of 1 which is the process id for init process.
     Syntax: pid_t getppid(void);
     Return type: getppid() returns the process ID of the parent of the current process. It
    never throws any error therefore is always successful.

    ALGORITHM:

    Algorithm For Main Process:

    1. Declared a child & parent process prototype.


    2. Declared a pid of type pid_t 
    3. IF PID <- zero then to the newly created child process.
    4. Else Call the parent process
    Algorithm For Child Process:

    1. Declare variable i.
    2. for i = 1 to MAX_COUNT.
    3. If i%2==0 Then Print value of i.
    4. i=i+1
    5. Print “Child process ID”.
    6. Print (getpid())
    7. END For
    8. Print “Child process is done”

    Algorithm For Parent Process:

    1. Declare variable i.
    2. for i = 1 to MAX_COUNT.
    3. If i%2!=0 Then Print value of i.
    4. i=i+1
    5. Print “Parent process ID”.
    6. Print (getppid())
    7. END For
    8. Print “Child process is done”

    CONCLUSION: Hence created a child process from a parent using fork () system call and
    also tested its creation. Therefore the created processes also differentiated using getpid ()
    and getppid () system calls.

    PROGRAM

    #include<stdio.h>
    #include<sys/types.h>
    #include<unistd.h>
    #define MAX_COUNT 10
    void ChildProcess(void); /* child process prototype */
    void ParentProcess(void); /* parent process prototype */

    void main()
    {
    pid_t pid;
    if (pid == 0)
    ChildProcess();
    else
    ParentProcess();
    }

    void ChildProcess(void)
    {
    int i;
    for (i = 1; i <= MAX_COUNT; i++)
    {
    if(i%2==0)
    {
    printf("%d \n",i);
    }
    }
    printf(" This line is from child, value = %d\n", i);
    printf("child process: %d \n",getpid());
    printf(" *** Child process is done ***\n");
    }

    void ParentProcess(void)
    {
    int i;

    for (i = 1; i <= MAX_COUNT; i++)


    {
    if(i%2!=0)
    {
    printf("%d \n",i);
    }
    }
    printf("This line is from parent, value = %d\n",i);
    printf(" parent process: %d\n",getppid());
    printf("*** Parent is done ***\n");
    }

    OUTPUT:

    1
    3
    5
    7
    9
    This line is from parent, value = 11
    parent process: 2963
    *** Parent is done ***
    2
    4
    6
    8
    10
    This line is from child, value = 11
    child process: 3069
    *** Child process is done ***

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