CS 3733 Operating Systems, Spring 2008 Assignment 4 Comments

• This assignment was graded on the basis of 30 points.
• Grading:
  3 points for Part 5
  5 points for Part 4
  6 points for Part 3
  If you do not get Part 2 working, you received less than half credit and will need this as a starting point for Assignment 5.
• On the second try of findFactors1, the max must go up to sqrt(n) rather than sqrt(n)/2.
• Actually, if n1 is the original value and n is the current one, we must go up to the smaller of sqrt(n1)/2 and n, but once you get up to sqrt(n), there will be at most one factor left which you will find at the end.
• Neither 323 or 437 is prime.
• When sending a value through the pipe, it is more efficient to send the raw value (sizeof(long long) bytes) then converting to a string and then converting back on the other end.
• When reading from a pipe, you may not get everything that was written.
• You can use readblock from the restart library.