CS 3733 Operating Systems
Lecture 9 [2/2/98]:Pipes and Process Communication
Reading: PUP 3.5
The
exec
system call
Different forms of
exec
Argument arrays.
Look at Program 2.8.
What happens when the call to
makeargv
is moved before the
fork
?
Attributes that preserved after
exec
.
Simple process communication
The
pipe
system call (PUP 3.5)
Representation of devices as special files
FIFOs (PUP 3.9)
Pipelines.
SKILL: Understand how a pipeline works.
Revision Date: 2/2/98
CS 3733 Operating Systems
CS 3733 Operating Systems