Assignment No. 01Semester: Spring 2016

CS604 –Operating System

Total Marks: 20

Due Date: 12-05-2016

Assignment Objective: To give you hand on experience of Ubuntu though VMware To know about system calls like fork, wait, and exec How to work on Ubuntu terminal How to compile a program using gcc compiler and execute a program through terminal

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Assignment

Question

Write a C program in any editor of Linux in which you have to create one child using fork system call. In child process, message will be displayed to take input for two tasks through Switch or If else statements.

One for execution of ping command for any website i.e ping yahoo.com using the execlp() system call. Second to create any directory using mkdir command i.e mkdir VU

Parent process should wait until child finishes its execution through Wait() call and display a message “Well done Kid”. Finally Both Parent and Child ID should be displayed.

You have to solve the assignment in the following way

Save the program in your student id directory which can be created anywhere i.e Desktop Attach only two screen shots i.e one for ping and other for mkdir Also copy the code in the text format in the same word file in which screen shot attached.

Sample Program output:Screen Shot 1:

Screen Shot 2:

Deadline: Your assignment must be uploaded/submitted on or before 12-05-2016