6.087-14 Linux inter process communication

OutlineReview Inter process communication Signals Fork Pipes FIFO Spotlights 1 6.087 Lecture 14 – January 29, 2010Review Inter process communication Signals Fork Pipes FIFO Spotlights 2 Review: multithreadingRace conditions • non-determinism in thread order. • • can be prevented by synchronization • atomic operations necessary for synchronization • Mutex: Allows a single thread to own it • Semaphores: Generalization of mutex, allows N threads to acquire it at a time. • P(s) : acquires a lock • V(s) : releases lock • sem_init(),sem_destroy() • sem_wait(),sem_trywait(),sem_post() • Other problems: deadlock, starvation 2 Sockets• • enables client-server computing • Client: connect() • Server: bind(),listen(),accept() • I/O: write(),send(),read(),recv() 3 6.087 Lecture 14 – January 29, 2010Review Inter process communication Signals Fork Pipes FIFO Spotlights 4 Preliminaries• Each process has its own address space. Therefore, individual processes cannot communicate unlike threads. • Interprocess communication: Linux/Unix provides several ways to allow communications • signal • pipes • FIFO queues • shared memory • semaphores sockets • 4 • Unix/Linux allows us to handle exceptions that arise during execution (e.g., interrupt, floating point error, segmentation fault etc.). • A process recieves a signal when such a condition occurs. void (∗signal(int sig,void(∗handler)(int )))( int ) • determines how subsequent signals will be handled. • pre-defined behavior: SIG_DFL (default), SIG_IGN (ignore) • returns the previous handler. 5 Valid signals:SIGABRT abnormal termination SIGFPE floating point error SIGILL illegal instruction SIGINT interrupt SIGSEGV segmentation fault SIGTERM termination request SIGBUS bus error SIGQUIT quit The two signals SIGSTOP,SIGKILL cannot be handled. 6 int raise( int sig) can be used to send signal sig to the program. Notes: There can be race conditions. • • signal handler itself can be interrupted.use of non-reentrant functions unsafe.• • sigprocmask can be used to prevent interruptions.handler is reset each time it is called.• 7 Example#include void sigproc () { signal(SIGINT, sigproc); /∗∗/printf("you have pressed ctrl −c \n " ); } void quitproc (){ printf("ctrl −\\ pressed to quit " );exit (0); /∗ normal exit status ∗/} main () { signal(SIGINT, sigproc);signal (SIGQUIT, quitproc );printf ( ‘ ‘ ctrl −c disabled use ctrl −\\ to quitn’’);for (;;); /∗ infinite loop ∗/} 8 Forkpid_t fork(void) • fork() is a system call to create a new process • In the child process, it returns 0 • In the parent process, it returns the PID (process id) of the child. • The child PID can be used to send signals to the child process. • returns -1 on failure (invalid PID) 9 Example#include #include int main() { /∗some code ∗/pid _t pid=fork (); int i;if (pid) {for ( i =0;i <5; i ++){sleep (2); printf("parent process:%d\n ",i); } } else { for ( i =0;i <5; i ++){ sleep (1); printf("child process:%d\n ",i); } }/∗ end child ∗/}/∗ end main ∗/parent process :0 child process:1 child process:2 parent process :1 child process:3 child process:4 parent process :2 parent process :3 parent process :4 10 Fork• fork() makes a full copy of the parents address space. • pid_t getpid() returns PID of the current process. • pid_t getppid() returns PID of the parent process. • wait(int∗) is used to wait for the child to finish. • waitpid () is used to wait for a specific child. Zombies: • the child process can exit before the parent • stray process is marked as • preap can be used to reap zombie processes. 11 PipesPipes are used in unix to redirect output of one command to another. Pipes also allow parent processes to communicate with its children. Examples • ls | more -displays results of ls one screen at a time • cat file.txt | sort -displays contents of file.txt in sorted order int pipe(int FILEDES[2]) • A pipe can be thought of as a pair of file descriptors • no physical file is associated with the file descriptor• one end is opened in write mode.• other end is opened in read mode.12 Example/∗ source: http://beej.us/guide ∗/#include #include #include #include #include /∗ ipc ∗/int main ( void ) { int pfds [2]; char buf [30]; pipe(pfds ); if (! fork ()) { printf(" CHILD: writing to the pipe\n ");write(pfds[1], "test", 5);printf(" CHILD: exiting\n");exit (0);} else { printf("PARENT: reading from pipe\n"); read(pfds[0], buf, 5); printf("PARENT: read \"%s\"\n ", buf); wait (NULL); } return 0; } 13 FIFO• FIFO queues may be thought of as named pipes. • Multiple processes can read and write from a FIFO. • Unlike pipes, the processes can be unrelated. • FIFOs can be created using mknod system call. int mknod (const char ∗path,mode_t mode,dev_t dev) • contains the declaration for mknod. • mknod used to create special files -devices,fifos etc. • mode can have special bits such as S_IFIFO | 0644 • dev is interpreted based on the mode. Example: mknod("myfifo", S_IFIFO | 0644 , 0); 14 Example/∗ source: http://beej.us/guide ∗/#include #include #include #include #include #define FIFO_NAME "fifo" int main ( void ){ char s[300]; int num, fd ; mknod(FIFO_NAME, S_IFIFO | 0666, 0); printf("waiting for readers...\n "); fd = open(FIFO_NAME, O_WRONLY); printf("got a reader\n "); while (gets(s), !feof(stdin)) {num = write(fd, s, strlen(s));if (num == −1)perror(" write " );else printf("wrote %d bytes\n", num); } return 0; } #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #define FIFO_NAME "fifo" int main ( void ){ char s[300]; int num, fd ; mknod(FIFO_NAME, S_IFIFO | 0666, 0); printf("waiting for writers ...\n "); fd = open(FIFO_NAME, O_RDONLY); printf("got a writer\n "); do { num = read(fd, s, 300); if (num == −1) perror("read" ); else { s[num] = ’\0’; printf("read %d bytes:\"%s\"\n", num, s); } } while (num > 0); return 0; } 15 6.087 Lecture 14 – January 29, 2010Review Inter process communication Signals Fork Pipes FIFO Spotlights 16 Project spotlights• Face finding with openCV Barcode scanner • • ImageIC • Image2DXF • Library database • Simple Audio Visualizer Non-linear oscillator • NoteDeluxe • CUDA • Visual mouse • • Wallpaper downloader 16 MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu 6.087 Practical Programming in C January (IAP) 2010 For information about citing these materials or our Terms of Use,visit: http://ocw.mit.edu/terms.