CS 3733 Operating Systems, Spring 2006 Assignment 1 Comments

  1. Staple the assignment in the upper left corner, not the right corner.
  2. Print your assignment using a fixed point type such as Courier, not a proportional type font.
  3. Do not ignore lint warning that are not on the list of warnings you can ignore.
  4. A lint warning in the form "implicitly declared to return int" usually means a missing include.
  5. When you are asked to write a test program, don't just do one test.
    You should include at least one test in which all were successful and one in which there were multiple failures.
  6. Source lines should be at most 80 characters in length and must fit on one line when printed.
  7. You must use macros to test the return status from wait or waitpid.
  8. You should first create all of the children and then wait for all of them.